Lively

Help students define their overall reading goal at the beginning of the year, then support them with mini goals along the way. My first graders usually state their big goal as "get better at reading" or something broad like that. Then while conferring with a student, together you can identify a next step to work on for a bit that is specific to that child's needs, rooted in phonics, fluency, decoding, comprehension, book choice, finding a good-fit spot to read, or whatever the child needs to be