The student has an opportunity to practice and discuss strategies used to read text. The book challenges the reader and creates a context for successful processing of challenging texts. The student is provided with a carefully selected text, guidance, demonstration, and support. The experience provides an opportunity for continuous assessment of each individual reader. Independent Reading Students read daily on their own from a wide variety of self-selected materials.
Students have an opportunity to apply reading strategies independently.
This experience provides time to sustain the reading behavior. This valuable experience promotes fluency through rereading. Students become more confident of their own reading through sustained, successful opportunities to read. Collaborative Reading Students read with one another in pairs or more. The students have the opportunity to apply their reading strategies independently while practicing phrased and fluent reading in a social context.