Status Updates From More Than Guided Reading: F...

Balanced assessment: observations and conversations across instructional activities, informal running records as necessary, benchmark assessments... Documentation: In this 2005 book, Mere talks about her spiral notebook with sections for each student. More recently, in her blog she discusses using evernote http://goo.gl/aq35n.

Thinking about: connecting reading and writing, looking for opportunities to study words through writing, the use of reading response journals/notebooks--can easily interfere with reading, but can be a tool for practicing and demonstrating comprehension strategies? Mere uses for read aloud responses, with independent reading by choice. I think.

I like the idea of involving students in the organization of the classroom library. Also that of rotating books in and out to keep the library fresh.

Love chapt.4! Thinking about the differences between easy, challenging, and just right reading, and the importance of choice and of balance...