Reading Teams Guide to Setting up Reading Teams in Your Classroom

About this curriculum

Why implement Reading Teams in your classroom? For the teacher: • Only Thirty minutes of marking every three days! • Only Thirty minutes of photocopying once every month! • Plenty of assessment data for reporting! For the Students: • Students will improve their reading fluency, clarity, and expression. • Students will learn and apply 30 different reading comprehension strategies. • Students will improve their oral communication skills. • Students will learn to become collaborative and cooperative as a team and dev lop good values. What are Reading Teams? Reading Teams are groups of four or five students who work together cooperatively and corroboratively to study a novel chapter by chapter. Reading Team members take turns reading aloud and expressively, one paragraph at a time, until the chapter has been read. Each member of the Reading Team completes a different Reading Role Page for each chapter studied. Each member of the Reading Team shares their completed Reading Role Page with their team involving all Reading Team members in the “share” experience. This Reading Cycle is repeated for each chapter studied and with each member completing a different Reading Role Page each time.…