To celebrate 2014 and to help give teachers more ideas on how to build reading stamina, I've created a Celebrate 2014 Giveaway! There will be three, $10 Teacher's Pay Teacher's Gift Cards, and then three winners will win 4 items from my store!
It is very easy to enter...just leave a comment about what you use to help build your students reading stamina! This will be a great way for teachers to collaborate and share ideas with other teachers.
How do you build reading stamina in your classroom?
What do you do when students struggle reading?
What are students read during independent reading?
Click on the picture to download a free Winter Stamina Graph (in 1 min. and 5 min. increments).
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I haven't practiced building stamina much. I do have them read for a few minutes and then have them read aloud to practice fluency. Thank you for the freebie. It will help me!:)
ReplyDeleteI set aside 20 minutes a couple times a week. they are allowed to sit or lay anywhere in the class, but they must read for 20 minutes! they get really excited about it. I usually give them a few minutes to write a short response about what they wrote, or talk about it with a desk buddy.
ReplyDeleteWe read each day in class and then we have a separate period of the day when students read for 20 minutes. Believe it or not, most of the students don't want to stop reading after the 20 required minutes and they read more! They keep a log of what they read. Often they ask to visit the library during this period to get more books! Happy New Year to you!
ReplyDeleteWe work on building our fluency more than we build our stamina in my room but we use poetry and repeated readings to work on these. Thanks for the chance!
ReplyDeleteMegan
mhorman@north-cedarstu.org
When I was in the classroom we would model how to & not to sit quietly & read. We would start small then add time each day, stopping when there were interruptions.
ReplyDeleteI am using beanie baby strategies in my room this year and I had one of those spur of the moment ideas which has really helped, I had a stork beanie baby, and he was introduced, Stick with it Story who taught them about stamina. I also used a timer every day on the big projected screen and would stop it whenever anyone broke the stamina. As a class we counted the minutes, set a goal of 20 and graphed, as well as a paper chain, adding a link each for each minute. They have done well. In the beginning some were just looking at pictures and thinking, but I would say now 99% of them are reading. (until a new student came in, that's never easy) This was my first year really focusing and doing more intentional modeling, teaching and tracking of this.
ReplyDeleteBridget-I saw your post on Bloglovin and didn't realize you had a giveaway going. I love the cute graphs, and Timed Repeated Readings are a great way to increase fluency and record accuracy. Thanks for sharing!
ReplyDeleteCarla
Comprehension Connection
We do Daily 5 but I have struggling readers who this always a problem for.. cant wait to try the graphs :-) Thanks for the freebie and the chance at winning!!
ReplyDeleteKaren
tommysmom0206@yahoo.com
I use a modified version of Daily 5. I haven't specifically "practiced" stamina much, because I have them do read to self as a rotation while I am reading w/ a reading group so their "stamina" has to be the amount of time that I am at reading group. That being said, most of them love their read to self time and are focused. I think it's important to have a large selection of books (rotate them out some too to keep it fresh) available at a range of levels. If there is a purpose for reading that is a big motivator. They can practice reading for a readers theater part, to read to someone or maybe even let them bring a book home to read to a parent or sibling once they have read it repeatedly in class. My students like to read books that they are familiar with because it was a teacher read-a-loud or it was written by a student (they can read the stories that are created during writing time) or something we've read together as a class (we read poems together and then they put them into poetry notebooks that go into their bookbags for RTS). This is a great topic. I've enjoyed reading all the responses!
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Teacher Treasure Hunter
I leveled my class library this year! This has been helpful because everyone is reading on their level. Its amazing the span of levels in series -- I love the paper chain idea from above...going to try it! Thanks all, great sharing.
ReplyDeleteBecause I teach 3rd grade, I think they are more developmentally ready for longer stamina from the daily 5. At the beginning of the year or after breaks, we definitely built it up, but my students know it's an expectation that they are reading and taking AR tests during their read to self rotation.
ReplyDeleteI use familiar books in baskets and books that are on the students level. I like to start out at the beginning of the year with a timer and increase the amount slowly and regularly to build stamina. The kids enjoy knowing how far they have increased. :)
ReplyDeleteLori
Conversations in Literacy
I use the Daily 5 procedure to build stamina with my first graders. I start off explaining how I would need to build stamina to run around the school building more than once and how I would build up to a goal of 10 times. Then we start practicing our reading stamina with a goal of 3 minutes. We build up a couple more minutes each day. The students love the suspense as I fill in the squares on our stamina graph to show the total. My teaching partner and I also have our first graders build up their bathroom stamina and that really seems to make sense to them!
ReplyDeleteHello-To increase stamina we started reading for a few minutes at the beginning of the year in a cozy corner. Every few weeks we increased the time required to read. Students keep a log of what they read and share daily with a partner. Thank you for the giveaway.
ReplyDeleteI teach K so to increase stamina I try to make sure every student has books they can "read". After a few whole class readings, they can all read Pete the Cat or the Rhyming Dust Bunnies or anything by Jan Thomas back to themselves and enjoy it. I have multiple copies of Brown Bear and the very Hungry Caterpillar which some of them will remember from preschool. I make sure my read alouds are catchy repetitive books that will hook them in right away and make them want to revisit that story again and again. Nothing breeds success like success.
ReplyDeleteI use the Daily Five to build stamina. I LOVE it! Great giveaway!
ReplyDeleteSara
Polka Dot Kinders
The only way to build stamina is to give them time to read. Easy to say, hard to do. Also, making sure they have independent leveled texts for independent reading time, so they want to read.
ReplyDeleteI just let them read! If we want our students to build their reading stamina they need to be given the time to actually sit down and read. This January we will be building reading stamina using the Daily 5 model. We will start with everyone reading at the same time, when one person is not reading the whole class is brought back together to track their time and review proper reading behavior (ie: READING ALL THE TIME!). I like to do this after every break from school that is longer than 1 week because it gives the students the opportunity to review the rules and expectations and they have an end goal to reach (20 minutes of uninterrupted independent reading in grade 1). As we progress throughout the year, this takes less time. My class SHOULD get back on track to about 15 minutes by the end of January.
ReplyDeleteWhat do they read? Our classroom has a few sets of Scholastic guided reading books (science based) which I use for my higher readers (Level B and C) and the other students are all at level A. For those students I have ABC books, sight word books, and a few level A books. These are sorted in boxes by levels/theme.
We practice, practice, practice. We read every day. They choose books from my leveled baskets a level or more below what they are working on in guided reading. For struggling students I try to sneak extra practice in whenever possible.
ReplyDeleteWe read lots!! Students have an assembly each quarter that rewards the top readers. Many students push themselves to break their previous reading goals based on these awards and honors!!
ReplyDeleteReading is encouraged on a daily basis. We read in class and students read on their own each day. Students keep a journal of what they read and they love to challenge themselves. Books on tape work well too.
ReplyDeleteWe use raz-kids to help build fluency, comprehension and stamina!
ReplyDeleteOur students have an additional class period each day for reading skills built into the day. During this class period they read a book of their choice and log information into a folder called Reading Log. They share information about their reading with one another in pairs. They love to read and receive awards from the school for doing so!
ReplyDeleteWe read on a daily basis. My students have book bags that consist of books they check out from our classroom library. In their bags are two picture books, two non-fiction books, and 2 or more chapter books depending on their level. My really low kids pick leveled readers as well. When they complete something before the class is ready to move on, they take out their book bags. During reading centers, one center is book bags and they sit in a quiet place a read the books in their book bag. They are constantly reading. For their monthly behavior goal a couple of months back, they choose a read-a-thon. It was a wonderful experience and they have asked to do another one.
ReplyDeleteI desperately need to build stamina in my classroom with my students! My students have book boxes to put the paper copies of books we make/they color in the classroom. It also has books the students get to go and shop for in the room. I know for sure any help I could get with building stamina would be great for me!
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Hi and thank you for the giveaway. My students read every other day during a special class period just for independent reading. Students always carry a book of their choice to read around with them. They love to read, and since the beginning of the school year, THEY have actually increased the amount of time they spend reading on their own. They do keep a log of what they read too.
ReplyDeleteThank you very much for the fun giveaway, It's great to read all of these comments! My students, fortunately, are avid readers. They read daily in all classes. ELA, SS, Science...this certainly is a plus. They also are provided incentives by our PTA to read. They earn prizes for increasing their reading throughout the year.
ReplyDeleteWow! Lots of good stuff here. Thank you. My students have to have a book each day of their choice to read during "down" times throughout our school day. This works well, often many of them are carrying so many books they are dropping them as they enter their classroom doors!
ReplyDeleteWe have book choices that are "challenging" too, so they can pick from those in our library.
We do Daily 5 so we are working on stamina all the time - I do try to make time for extra practice after holidays or long breaks.
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