Authentic active engagement is NOT shading in circles on a worksheet. OR, completing assigned lessons on a website that advertises a guarantee to raise test scores. Active engagement is motivating students to engage in their reading work for authentic purposes that will help them grow as a reader and a learner. Authentic active engagement means that we must nudge our readers to have a go at trying out the new skill or strategy within their own reading. **Clicking A B C or D

Young readers need expectations to guide their talk about books. They are not going to be able to automatically have deeply insightful disc

When understanding what your readers need to gain, progress monitoring becomes a daily routine. You need a toolkit of progress monitoring to

An effective minilesson is short and packed with a powerful message that will ignite and motivate your readers to actively engage in their i

Teaching readers to uncover THEME is a win-win for any classroom at any level because it leads to rich, passionate and spirited classroom di

Readers gonna read! But, sometimes, readers will tell you they don't like to read, but that just means they haven't found this right book!

You want your readers to become more MOTIVATED, ENGAGED & ANALYTICAL. That's your end goal, right?

So...what do my readers want now? You want to get ahead of your readers and plan some lessons they will need in the immediate future.

How do you know when the students 'got it'? So, first, look back at your minilesson planning. What one thing did you want readers to gain

Running Records provide so much valuable information in such a short amount of time. I know that when someone says "running records&

So...just what all goes in the Reader's Notebook?Reading Identity, Personal Bookshelf, Reading Goals, Minilesson Work & Independent Work

When students are engaged in the minilesson and practice the reading work, that engagement strategy or tool can be carried through into inde