Reading Goals and Record spreadsheet<\/figcaption><\/figure>\nGoal-setting is a process<\/h3>\n I think giving students an opportunity<\/strong> to set their own reading goals and monitor their progress can be an important step towards students become lifelong readers.\u00a0 And I can imagine that this process will look very different for different students.\u00a0 Certainly, there will be some who set an ambitious goal and meet it.\u00a0 Others may need to adjust their goals, course correcting as they realize that their goals were too easy or too ambitious.\u00a0 This is one step along the way to getting better at setting goals, developing a sense of agency, and exercising their rights as readers.<\/p>\nHere is a screencast showing how students might use the Reading Goals google sheet to set goals and celebrate their progress:<\/p>\n
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Conferencing with readers about reading and self-direction creates powerful synergy.<\/h3>\n Imagine a 1:1 conversation with a reader.<\/p>\n
They spell out their reading goal and share their progress.<\/p>\n
Perhaps they talk about where they got stuck: the wrong (boring) book, waiting to read until bedtime when they are tired, or getting interrupted by a sibling.<\/p>\n
And they celebrate their successes: the time they got so swept away by the story that they read for over an hour, when they stopped reading the boring book and chose a magazine instead, or the author they discovered who makes them laugh out loud.<\/p>\n
The goal of a conference is empowerment, not surveillance.\u00a0 Instead of focusing on the hours the student spent reading, the teacher focuses on the student’s self-direction.\u00a0 How they adjusted their goal or their strategies for reaching it, what they learned by monitoring their progress, how they managed to overcome obstacles.\u00a0 Perhaps the teacher asks questions to deepen reflection, or suggests other ways to deal with barriers to reading, helping students grow as both self-directed learners and as readers. Ultimately, the two connect reader to reader!<\/p>\n
How are you empowering your readers?\u00a0 How are your readers setting and tracking reading goals?<\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I am NOT a fan of mandatory reading logs. I am, however, a huge fan of reading for pleasure. Stories, real or imagined, build empathy, connect us with the broader world, and help us understand our own lived experience.\u00a0 Getting lost in a book is a real joy, one even the most reluctant readers can … <\/p>\n
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