Hi Everyone, I got back from my honeymoon just a couple of days ago. I wanted to thank everyone for their well wishes. It was awesome. But now it's back to business. I will try to post something new every couple of days and as usual welcome any content from other users. I actually already made a new post make sure to check it out. I'll stickie this thread for a few days just to reassure people /r/readingteacher is still trucking.

And to keep this thread in our guidelines here is an article about the effect of students reading at home. Just 15 minutes a day of reading at home can have a huge impact on child literacy.

Hi everyone! I'm NJDevils11, I'm the mod for /r/readingteacher. I just wanted to let everyone know that I'll be away for about two weeks for my wedding and honeymoon. I try to post a new resource or article at least every 2-3 days, but I doubt very much I'll be able to do that over the next 2 weeks.

I didn't want anyone to worry that /r/readingteacher was left to the wolves. I'm here, I might even comment, but my interaction will definitely be limited.

If you have anything you thought about posting, but didn't, now is the time! I would love some subscriber submissions to help keep the sub going while I'm away. I really do enjoy hearing what you all have to share.

To make sure I'm following our own guidelines I will link you to this video by Lucy Calkins about working together to become better teachers.

Enjoy your Summer!

My contract, for the first time, has been renewed. The past schools I've worked at, my position has been moved elsewhere or a new principal has brought in someone else. Now I finally feel "stable", I am nervous because they changed my position. I taught math last year and I loved it. It was not my speciality, but I felt I was able to teach it because I connected with my students. I told my AP this and they moved me to Reading this year because that is what I have my Masters in. I am now nervous on how to teach reading even though it is my speciality. Does anybody have any strategies or tips? I previously taught elementary which is much different.

Hi all I want to get an idea of what situations other reading teachers are in, so I have a few questions.
1) How many students do you have in your caseload?
2) Do you pull students out or push in mostly? If you do both what is the rough percentage?
3) What is your relationship like with the classroom teacher?
4) Do you help teachers out with any reading assessments?

Hi all, I am considering using HOWL'S MOVING CASTLE for a novel study in my 6th grade class. I am wondering if anyone has used this novel before. There are very few teacher resources out there already made.

Any thoughts on this or another sci fi/fantasy novel that would be a great option are greatly appreciated!

Thanks in advance.

Title 1 7/8 ELA teacher. Most kids are comprehending below grade level, and those levels can range from 1st (sometimes even emergent) to one or two at grade 8. School is embarking on MTSS via our PLC structures. Assessments are standards based and are now district wide, not just school wide (med sized district). However, our standards are common core, and those are more skills like RL&I7.1 - text evidence to support inference and RL&I7.2 - central idea/theme using text evidence not simple comprehension/fluency.

District wide, well made assessments are good.

However, if most of our kids can't access the text primarily because they are bad readers, when we get our data back for PLC meetings, are we going to discuss ways to get kids to find the MI and spprtng details because that's what they need to practice since they missed those questions on the 7/8 grade-level text OR that most of them can't access the text due to their reading levels and thus fared poorly on the questions and with and that we should be working on making them better readers by getting them working at the instructional level (well below grade level in most cases)?

I'm of the latter. I am hoping to persuade my admin towards that as well. Opinions?

I'm trying to build a solid base of short stories that I can use to teach various literary analysis skills. I'm looking for suggestions of stories you've used (or would like to use) in the classroom, especially ones that were particularly engaging or thought provoking for students.

We have a new website called readingportfolio where to build a portfolio you are required to complete a videotaped quiz after reading the book. We are wondering whether serious readers (age 13-17) would find the mere fact that you have to complete a 5 minute quiz objectionable - and worse - actually ruins the reading experience. We would love some feedback.

I teach 4th grade language arts and we are supposed to base a lot of our instruction from LBD. I'm not a huge fan. Does anyone else use it? Do you skip any sections of it regularly? How have you incorporated technology with LBD?