I recently finished up with the Grade Two class. It was amazing to see them whizz through putting their third reading into their Explain Everything in just one lesson.
I have also been building these in grade one as well. Here is an example of two students. One who is in our EAL program and one who is not. I ask the EAL students to use their reading books given them by their EAL teacher since they are designed to build their English vocabulary and fluency.
I began in grade one by taking students one at a time out into the hallway with their books. We recorded the introduction slide and their reading.
For the second round I had the students add the “March Reading” slide, take pictures of their books, insert the books into their project and record their reading through 3 guided lessons following me as I instructed them with help from a partner.
For the third round I had the students add the “May Reading” slide, take pictures of their books and insert the books in one lesson. The following lesson I reminded them all of how to complete their recoding and send them off to record.
In grade two I had the students add the “October Reading” slide, take pictures of their books, insert the books into their project and record their reading through 3 guided lessons following me as I instructed them with help from a partner.
The second time we recorded we were able to add the “March Reading” slide, take pictures of their books and insert the books in one lesson.
The third time I simply reminded them of what they needed to do and they completed it all in one lesson.
I look forward to seeing one of these progress through another year as I think it will be an amazing sampling of how a student reads.