Practical Pedagogs

Book Commercials are an effective and fun way to hold students accountable for independent reading, work on speaking and listening skills, and create excitement among their classmates for the books they are reading! This single-point rubric was created to streamline your assessment of Book Commercials in your classroom - and gives you the flexibility and freedom to assign grades and point totals that are best for your students.

Building a relationship with each student is essential to creating a productive and safe classroom environment. This ready-to-use survey will help you get to know your students, so you can set up a student-centered classroom in which all students thrive as readers and writers.

Talking with students about the books they are reading is a great way to connect, assess, and build rapport. Using a conference assessment tool keeps those conversations targeted and aligned with standards, yet still allow for organic discussion.This is a rubric to be used early in your conferencing, as its focus is book selection, genre identification, identifying plot events and explaining how they influence future action.

A quick, efficient way to assess your students' reading skills using their independent reading books. You choose the skill, and we provide a rubric to help you accurately assess each student's proficiency. Use this to assess all reading standards at your grade level! Resource includes two versions of the assessment, so you can choose which works best for you and your students. Check out our blog post on using Reading Conferences as an accountability measure in our classroom!