Know+Your+Readers

= Know Your Readers!! =

Lexiles for Reading Level There are numerous ways to assess students for their reading level. Recently WV teachers have been lucky to receive a Lexile score for every one of their students. The Lexile appears on each student's Westest results right along with their score for Reading/Language Arts! Once you know the lexile scores of your students you can effectively place them in reading groups or with reading partners. Then head over to the [|Lexile] website and simply type in titles or authors to find books that will match your students' lexile levels!! You can even use their [|Analyzer Tool]to generate the lexile of any reading materials you want to use for class!!!

Survey for Reading Interests I'm sure we all have Reading Interest Inventory Worksheets to discover students' interest. But do you want to make it easier on your self to compile the results and more exciting for your students??? Sign up and use [|Survey Monkey]to create your own survey and email the link to your students. To view mine, click on [|Mrs. Underwood's Survey]! 

Put it all together!!!

Why work so hard to get to know your students unless you use it to benefit them! Use Literature Circles to match students by level or interest. To Get Started Check Out These Links of Interest: [|Literature Circle Resource Center] [|ReadWriteThink Lesson Plan] [|Web English Teacher] [|Education World] [|Bright Hub] media type="youtube" key="F-W46ApUVDo?fs=1" height="307" width="384" align="center"

If you have more than one reading class, set students up with a social networking site so they can share ideas from the book with students from another class! Don't forget to join the group yourself and monitor the site so that no one joins that is not part of the group!

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">[|Plurk] is a fantastic site to use for this purpose!! Check it out!