In chapter one, Jennifer Serravallo talks about different lenses to use when assessing students' reading. The first lens she talks about is reading engagement. She discusses using reading logs and interest inventories to help measure engagement. These are tools that are very familiar to me, and I wholeheartedly agree with her suggestions on how to use them. However, I was most excited to read about the idea of a Reading Engagement Inventory. Here is a picture of the one from the book.
Basically, you spend a block of reading time "kidwatching", paying close attention to the behaviors you notice during silent reading. You code or make short notes about behaviors you notice.
In my version, a blank space will mean the student appears to be on task reading. Here is my inventory I plan on using next year. I will likely put it on my iPad and keep an electronic record as I am a huge fan of minimizing the amount of papers in my classroom.
In my version, a blank space will mean the student appears to be on task reading. Here is my inventory I plan on using next year. I will likely put it on my iPad and keep an electronic record as I am a huge fan of minimizing the amount of papers in my classroom.
If you would like to try out this form, I put it on a Google Slide. If you make a copy of the file, you should be able to edit it however you would like, including changing the codes to fit your needs. (Just go to file and click "Make a copy.) I used font size 10, and I can fit 25 names in the table. You can change the font and/or cell size if you need to fit in more names. You can either print it out or complete the form digitally. To download, click on the pink button below.
(If you need assistance editing the table, you can click here for help.)
Let me know if you have any questions.
Thank you!

I was interested in that book too. I just requested her reading strategies book at my library. I head good things about her.
ReplyDeleteI have the reading strategies book as well, and I thing both books are awesome. I am getting so many great ideas!
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Mary
I did the exact same thing! That is how I ended up here- I even e-mailed her-
ReplyDeleteThe Kindergarten Re-reading log was just mind-blowing for me also and the engagement inventory goes right along with establishing procedures in the beginning with Daily 5.