![]() In addition, they provide a model for reading conferences that support tailored instructional choices and keep students at the center. ![]() ![]() Jen and Hannah outline practical steps for teachers to implement independent reading time or to enrich their current practice with multiple entry points whether you've been teaching one year or twenty. Trusting Readers is an essential and accessible guide that provides teachers with the inspiration, information, and tools needed to grow enthusiastic independent readers. They help teachers craft reading experiences for students that are centered around their engagement, instructional needs, and identities as readers. Their vision of conferring supports teachers as they support young readers. Jen and Hannah offer a clear definition of independent reading. ![]() Trusting Readers puts the independence back into independent reading-and bolsters that independence with collaboration. When teachers trust themselves and trust their students to create reading experiences that matter, they positively impact student growth. Overly prescriptive, culturally irrelevant curriculum does not provide spaces for students to develop a sense of agency as readers or for teachers to make decisions that reflect the needs of the students in front of them. It is an indispensable foundation for solid reading instruction yet, is too often viewed as a luxury. Independent reading is the right of every student. ![]()
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