Connecting and Assessing Individualized Independent Reading with Paired Book Chats, Collaborative Thinking, and Big Group Share

Last year, Jennifer Lund and I worked with a small group of Language Arts teachers to pilot an independent reading component to their courses. This initiative focused on providing students a dedicated day a week (most selected Wednesday) to read any text of their choice for an entire class period. We worked with teachers and students to provide targeted readers’ advisory, individualized and small group recommendations, and ideas and strategies for formative assessments; we also documented be...