Read 180 middle school

hold students accountable while they independently read with these easy to implement reading tips and tricks and strategies

Motivate students with independent reading by adding engaging reading sprints...turn the traditional reading log upside down!

Hello again! It feels like I was just publishing my May post yesterday! That's what June does to a teacher! Anyway, it's Nicole from Learning Lab again. I am happy to be here! Who here teaches Read180? A few years ago, I stepped into a long-term subbing position that used the Read180 program to teach reading and writing. The teacher that retired in the middle of the school year had already set up great routines with the class so my transition into becoming the Read180 teacher went pretty…

Read 180 "Browser" Notebooks Today was our last minimum day of . So, it seemed like a good time to go through the Read 180 pages that I had been working on and put one of the notebooks together. As usual, my goal to work the kinks out of ONE quickly evolved into ALL. I used simple 1 inch notebooks, and ended up using about nine of them. Driving to work this morning, I had one of those brilliant flashes of genius and decided to combine the Graphic Organizers and Quickwrites for each book in…

Guided reading is a valuable tool for middle school teachers looking to improve their students’ literacy skills. It's an effective strategy to increase comprehension and fluency, and promotes engagement and motivation.

If you are like me, you have gone down the rabbit hole of searching for resources, ideas, and strategies to bring the science of reading and structured literacy into the classroom. Your eyes are glazed over and you have some great ideas... but just don't know where (or how) to start. Here are some simple tips that can help you get going on your science of reading journey in your classroom of older students. Tip #5 is my favourite!

Seriously, that's it. And in that 2 minutes, you'll learn more about your students as readers than you ever would from a reading log that may or may not be

When attention spans are short, these do the trick!

Looking to start First Chapter Friday in your elementary or middle school classroom? Sharing the first chapter of a novel or text builds interest and understanding for your students and motivates them to finish the book. Check out my post to learn more about First Chapter Fridays, book suggestions and tips for implementing in your fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh and eighth grade classrooms.

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