Read 180

Hello again! It feels like I was just publishing my May post yesterday! That's what June does to a teacher! Anyway, it's Nicole from Learning Lab again. I am happy to be here! Who here teaches Read180? A few years ago, I stepped into a long-term subbing position that used the Read180 program to teach reading and writing. The teacher that retired in the middle of the school year had already set up great routines with the class so my transition into becoming the Read180 teacher went pretty…

Read 180, Writing, Exceptional Children, Special Education

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Exit slips are a great way to quickly assess your students on reading skills and standards that you are teaching. Grab free reading exit slips on this post.

Read 180 Workshop student reminder board to refer to throughout the workshop. I made posters like it to hang up in my classroom after our workshop is done and I wipe the whiteboard clean. The solid boxes with checkmarks help with pacing and showing progression through the workshop. The dashed boxes are for checkpoints/conferences with students.

Thousands of teachers have used my Tower of Books Challenge with their students as an engaging independent reading challenge, often replaci...

I have made a concerted effort to get away from reading logs in my classroom. I know, I know. So many people use them and love them, but honestly, I just didn't. Years ago, I did get away from the "mom sign this" reading log by creating a more content based log (that I still use as in class assignments) but that just wasn't working for my students anymore. Tracking them down on a daily basis to see if they did their reading wasn't creating readers and it wasn't making me very happy as a…

Yesterday Miss Lifesaver had a great post about Student Book Recommendations, and she sparked an idea for something that has been pinging around in my brain. Just last week before I closed out my classroom, I finished reorganizing my classroom library. So this morning when I signed on and saw that Jessica over at Joy in the Journey was having a linky about classroom libraries, I had to jump on the linky wagon to rerun a few pictures and share my Book Recommendation form. Read 180 Library For…

A Brief blurb from Dr Jan Richardson' s website. Jan Richardson, Ph.D., is a literacy consultant and author who earned her Ph.D. studying struggling readers. She has been a classroom teacher,...

I have always assigned nightly reading. Why? I don't assign nightly reading because I want to give students "reading homework." I don't assign nightly reading