Just as we build a community of readers in reading we must do the same in Writing. We have to share the kind of writer we are so students w

When you think about what your readers need and what your readers have already accomplished, you can begin to build a path that will lead them through increasingly more complex texts. Readers enter classrooms with unique and specific needs. Readers must be met where they are not where a grade level standard says they should be. Readers need tools and strategies to help them move forward on their path towards reading proficiency. Readers need guidance to help them progre

Readers need guidance in finding answers for their many wonderings. Readers need nonfiction reading and research skills.

Readers are naturally filled with questions about topics they are interested in and are led to read nonfiction texts to find answers

Readers change and evolve! Every reader has a unique reading identity that evolves over time with their reading interests, reading habits a

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Your readers must see how their thinking moves from literal understanding to reflective thinking that evolves into inferential understanding

Intentional planning to create a Literacy Engagement Chart can frontload future reading minilessons.

Literacy Engagement charts help build the bridge from active read aloud with accountable talk to successful strategy use during independent

When students stop and jot as they read, they are staying actively engaged in the text and monitoring their own comprehension. This easy ac

When readers know how to stop and jot about their reading thinking, they will easily be able to move into writing longer reading responses

We want students to take their thinking to the next level... Analytical Written Responses to Reading Those post it notes are full of student