Independent Reading Poster

Apply active-reading strategies (monitoring understanding, asking and answering questions, summarizing) while reading independently.

Follow classroom independent-reading routines: staying in an assigned spot and reading quietly.

Select a 'just-right' book matched to their own reading level.

Post this near your classroom's independent reading area so the expectations are visible exactly when students need to recall them.

Introduce the expectations explicitly before independent reading time, rather than assuming students already know what 'just-right book' or 'quiet mouth' means in your classroom.

Refer back to the poster's monitoring strategies (ask/answer questions, summarize) when conferencing with a student who seems to be reading without engaging with the text.

Reading self-monitoring — students apply the poster's strategies (asking/answering questions, summarizing) to check their own understanding while reading.

Book selection — students choose a 'just-right' book matched to their reading level.