Ms Shine

Do you visit your school library regularly? Do you have a field trip to the public library coming up? Is management a bit tricky? I came up with this as a way to reinforce expectations and encourage students to be accountable for their own behavior. It also gives you insight into how they choose books!

When students read, we want them to write about it. I use this as an ongoing assignment that I usually give students time in class to complete. I have them paste this in the front of their notebooks at the beginning of the year / unit and explicitly teach them how to do each one. (Examples and templates found in my shop.) I then ask them to do 2 - 3 a week and they can't repeat a type in a week.

Grade your students' work using this rubric. I, of course, always give them this at the same time I give them the assignment (Writing About Reading in my shop).

This is a blank template for Write For Tens (directions in Writing About Reading in my shop). It reminds students how to cite evidence and gives a sentence stem for explaining evidence.

This is the example I use when teaching the WFT sketch response option.

Reading Logs are a hot topic: are they inauthentic? Are they cheatable? Should we be forcing students to read? This one empowers students to choose their own books based on their interests while also pushing them a little outside of their comfort zones.