Reading Task Boards and Centers Holding Students Accountable for Applying Skills and Strategies when the read

What should your reading block look like?  What can we agree upon that must be happening?  Shared Reading  Guided Reading  Independent Practice  Students will produce something that will demonstrate what they are practicing when they read. This is how we will hold students accountable

Meaningful work means…  Students are engaged in reading most of the time. The other part of the time they are responding to reading.  Reading can be  Independent reads from the classroom library or school library  Time for kids, weekly reader, scholastic or national geographic or any other magazine that matches their independent or instructional level  Books around a content area or theme  Poems  Series books or author studies  **Responding to reading is skill based and standards based.  We can call responding to reading writing about reading too. **These reading responses can be your tasks

Managing the reading block  Challenges?  Successes?  When we have meaningful tasks, management comes with it.

What is a task board and why is it important?  Your task board is you management tool  Students know what they should do and when they should do it  A way to visually show what is going on during your reading block

Task Cards  Try and make some generic task cards for skills and strategies.

Task Cards

Examples  Packets that show  Poetry Ideas  Responding to Reading ideas  More Questions!

Let’s Make Some Tasks  Look at your scope and sequence and then think about:  What Task cards can you create?  What reading material will students be using to practice those skills?  Think about having reading bags or boxes where students can store a variety of material they can use to read independently and practice a task.