Reading Task Boards and Centers

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

2. 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

3. Meaningful work means… • Students are engaged in readingmost 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

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

5. 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

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

7. Task Cards

8. Task Cards

9. Examples • Packets that show • Poetry Ideas • Responding to Reading ideas • More Questions!

10. 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.