Guiding Question: What do good readers do when they read independently and together? Guiding...

Reading Life Sessions 4 and 5

INDEPENDENT READING

Guiding Question: What do good readers do when they read

independently and together?

Classroom Library

Book care • With a partner, discuss some examples

of how to take care of books and how not to take care of books.

Check in/ out procedures• What is the procedure for our

classroom library?

Silent-Sustained Reading(SSR)

Rules for SSR:

1. Read silently

2. Stay seated

3. No talking or working on other things

4. Everyone reads until the timer goes off

Reasons for independent reading

People who read regularly do better on tests like STAAR

The more words you read the more words you know

The more you read, the better reader you will become

Vocabulary size is the best predictor of reading

comprehension

Independent reading should be the single largest

source of vocabulary growth

Did You Know?

Reading 40 minutes per day (2.3 million words per year) = 90th

percentile

Reading 12 minutes per day (600,000 words per year) = 50th percentile

Reading 2 minutes per day (50,000 words per year) = 10th percentile

What do you think this data reveals about

reading?

W H A T I S S H A R E D R E A D I N G ?

Students and teacher all have same copy of the

text.• Can be a book, magazine article, internet article,

etc.

Students follow along as teacher or audio reads

aloud.

Time for teacher to model reading fluency.

RULES FOR SHARED READING

Think about the book!

Stay in your seat.

Be respectful-don’t distract others.

Read along silently-you MUST be looking at the

text!

Raise your hand to contribute to class discussions.

Independent v. Shared

What is the difference between

independent reading and shared

reading?

How are the rules alike &

different for independent and

shared reading?

OUR FIRST SHARED READING TEXT

Tuck Everlasting Book Trailer