Use this helpful student checklist to assess your students’ ability to utilize basic literacy concepts during independent reading time.

Encourage students to reflect on the context before solving story problems. Use these reflective questions during whole group, small group, or independent instruction.

This reading stamina chart can be used to help students track and increase the amount of time they can spend reading to themselves during independent reading.

As students become independent readers, they may have questions about what they read. Instead of taking the questions as they come up, encourage students to write them down using this handy worksheet.

After independent reading, check in to see how students are understanding what they read. Having students make character paper dolls is a fun way to assess their comprehension and bring the story to life!