Volume 3, Edition 8 – Best Practices for Independent Reading

Welcome to this edition of Best Practices Weekly. Today we’ll be discussing best practices for running independent reading blocks.

Teachers have many different ways of using their independent reading blocks. In an article for The Reading Teacher, a Illinois State University professor observed a number of master teachers to draw conclusions about broad, research-backed best practices when it comes to independent reading.

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