Reading Task Boards and CentersHolding Students Accountable for Applying Skills and Strategies

when the read

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

Meaningful work means… Students are engaged in reading most 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

Managing the reading blockChallenges?

Successes?

When we have meaningful tasks, management comes with it.

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

Task CardsTry and make some generic task cards for skills and

strategies.

Task Cards

Task Cards

ExamplesPackets that show

Poetry Ideas Responding to Reading ideas More Questions!

Let’s Make Some TasksLook 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.