Main Questions about Independent Reading:  (full show notes here)

Is there a place for independent reading in the classroom?  If so, what does it look like?

Independent Reading Is:

• Intentional, purposeful reading 
• Tailored to each specific student and their needs
• Looks different on each reader based upon their level
• Within a student’s range of skills
• Sitting with a decodable!
• Dinner with a little dessert (see below)

Independent Reading Is NOT:

• The age-old direction of “Drop Everything and Read”
• Reading alongside students and modeling reading for them at your desk
• Showing your students how much YOU love reading by reading a book yourself
• Sustained and silent
• Strictly timed
• A substitution for what we are doing in our small group time

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