Reading mileage activity

I have an 'activity' for Juls teachers, if you wish to participate, and then share with your colleagues at a Juls workshop if you wish...
Cheers, Vera.

This activity comes from : Best practices in literacy instruction, Third edition 2007, edited by L. Gambrell; L. Morrow; M. Pressley , page 101.

• Track the volume of reading that struggling readers in your classroom or school do over a 1-week period. You can think of 'struggling readers' as 'at risk readers' at any level if that helps.
• Compare this to the volume of reading better readers do.
• Use the books (count the words) that the reader sees at Guided reading time and home reading time.
• Just track one at-risk reader and one reader (this will help keep the task manageable).

• Are struggling readers doing at least as much reading as better readers?
• If not what can be done to expand the reading volume of struggling readers?

• Share your findings with other Juls teachers.
• Share what you did to change the amount of reading done.