Getting in the Reading Zone

Over these first few weeks of school we have been launching routines to get our learning up and running.

In our reading time,  kids have been finding a good reading spot that allows them to really get into the reading zone (they often don't even hear us call clean up once they're in the zone!). They have also been trying out different books in the classroom libraries to find ones they are interested in as well as those that are a good fit for them as readers. Students have been paired with a reading buddy who they can read with, talk about their books with, practice their oral reading with and support each other as they learn new strategies for decoding words and understanding text.

As readers, we are working on developing good habits:
-Giving our books a "sneak peek" using the cover, back, inside flap and first few pages to give us a sense of what might happen in its pages.
-Checking our sneak peek predictions as we read to see if we were right.
-DOING something at the end of reading a book like rereading a favorite part (or the whole book!), thinking back on the events of the story, or retelling the book to someone else.
-Reading more and MORE to build stamina.
-Setting goals to read more than we did yesterday.
-Rereading sentences, pages or whole books to make our reading more smooth and with expression.

Check out the pictures below of our 1-2 readers!