Need help ramping up your independent reading time?
Download our comprehensive handbook written by Laura Robb, Independent Reading Matters. Based on research-based practices and decades of classroom experience,
the handbook provides educators with practical tips to:
- Self-select “good fit” books students can read and enjoy
- Apply reading strategies to improve critical thinking
- Summarize fiction and nonfiction using structures that work
- Present book talks that showcase thinking and advertise great reads
- Confer to learn about students’ reading lives, attitudes, and comprehension
- Assess independent reading with books talks and self-evaluations
