Increasing the Ability of Students to Read Independently

Objective: Students will be able to self-assess their personal independent reading habits.
3: Meets the Standard (what all students should be striving for)

• Focused on reading the entire time.
• Read independently everyday.
• Respect other readers by following rituals and routines.
• Do your best and have all of your reading materials ready.
• Read texts from a variety of genres & challenge yourself to read new genres.
• Read with a purpose.
• Record your reading progress daily in your Reading Log.
• You use reading strategies from the Opening
• You try to solve reading problems during
  independent reading time every day.

2: Needs Revision

• Focused on reading some of the time.
• Read independently most of the time.
• You respect other readers most of the time by following rituals and routines.
• Most of the time, you work as hard as you can and have all of your reading materials ready.
• You read texts from a few different genres.
• You record your reading progress in your Reading Log most of the time.
• Most of the time, you use reading strategies from the Opening to solve reading problems during independent reading time. Other times, you continue reading without fixing the problem.

1: Needs Instruction

• You have a hard time focusing on reading at all.
• You hardly ever want to read independently.
• You need teacher guidance to follow the rituals and routines and continue reading in class.
• You only like to read texts from one or two genres.
• You record your reading progress once or twice a week in your Reading Log.
• You don’t spend much time practicing the reading strategies from the Opening.