Name: Reading Tracker Thermometer
SKU: 63f171858ce0216a73d42cb2
Price: 39.99 USD
Availability: InStock

About this resource

What's inside this resource

This is a simple but super cute way to help your students track their reading. Decide on your students’ reading goal (choose 10, 25, 50, 75, or 100 books as a goal) and then assemble the reading thermometer tracker. Decide whether you want black and white to allow your students to decorate their own, or print in color. Put up on the wall and have students write down the title of every book they read. Celebrate when you student reaches their goal, perhaps even setting a reward or party before they start. These charts of a fun way to see their reading grow and grow!

From year to year in teaching, I find that many students enjoy data tracking more than I do! Tracking data and goals are a great way for students to be able to see their progress and get motivated to work even harder towards their goals. For some students, tracking their own goals brings about friendly competition amongst classmates. If you are looking for a fun way to have students track their reading goals, here's one.

How to Use This:

No prep, ready to print goal tracker for your readers. Choose black and white or color and help your student set a goal of how many books they want to read (lines up to 100 are provided). Cut out and assemble. Hang on wall and then have students add the title of each book they've read. Help them set a reward for when they reach their goal! Enjoy!

What You Get:

· 1 color template of a reading thermometer tracker

· 1 black and white template of a reading thermometer tracker

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In the classroom

Teaching tips & learning objectives

Learning objectives

Record the title of every book finished, one book to a numbered line
Judge progress against a chosen reading goal by how far the filled lines have climbed
Keep a personal reading record that lasts across a term or a school year

Teaching tips

Fix the goal before assembling — the directions offer 10, 25, 50, 75 or 100 — because the sections stack upward from the base and a smaller goal simply uses fewer of them
Decide the print first: colour goes straight on the wall, while black and white lets students colour their own tracker before it is displayed
Write the name on the base section's "Reading Tracker for ______" plate before the pieces are joined, since that plate sits under line 1
The directions suggest agreeing a reward or celebration before students start, so the "You Reached Your Goal!" banner at the top has something waiting behind it
One line takes one title, so settle in advance whether re-reads, picture books and read-alouds count towards the total

Skills covered

Display assembly — teachers join four printed sections at the marked tabs to build a thermometer as tall as the chosen goal requires.
Reading-goal tracking — students write each finished book's title on the next numbered line, so the height of the filled section shows progress towards a goal of anywhere from 10 to 100 books.
Personal record keeping — because every line takes a title rather than a tick, the completed tracker is a reading list as well as a count.
Goal setting in a class — the directions ask teachers to settle the target number and, if wanted, the reward before the tracker goes on the wall.

Good to know

Questions teachers ask about this resource

How does the tracker adapt to a goal smaller than 100 books?

By leaving sections off. Each set prints as four pieces that join at printed tabs, with lines 1 to 10 on the base and 87 to 100 at the top, so a class aiming at 25 or 50 assembles only the lower pieces and stops there.

Why is the same tracker supplied twice?

To cover both printing choices. The directions ask whether to print in colour or in black and white so students can decorate their own, and the file carries a complete four-section set for each option.

Does the tracker record how many books or which books?

Which ones. Every number is followed by a blank rule rather than a box to tick, and the directions say to have students write down the title of every book they read, so a finished tracker doubles as a reading list.