As classroom routines become familiar, teachers and students may need motivation to keep completing tasks like monitoring student data and completing Reading lessons. This article recommends strategies to build classroom community, student motivation, and links to additional resources.
Help Students Set Goals
Work with students to set goals for Reading Plus lesson completion, scores, or reading level completion to create a sense of student ownership. Teachers can celebrate students' achievements as they work toward and attain their goals.
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Click here to open our Progress Monitoring and Goal Setting resource in DreamBox University (sign in to your educator dashboard before clicking the link). |
Build a Reading Community
- Encourage students to talk about what they are reading and recommend selections to each other.
- Consider creating a daily Reading Report.
- Designate a different student each day to recommend a selection they enjoyed.
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Click here to open our Lesson Tracker or Daily Record sheets (sign in to your eductaor dashboard before clicking the link). |
Challenge Busters
Encourage students to identify challenges, brainstorm ways to overcome them, and then share their successes with their classmates. This builds classroom community that will persist.
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Want to learn more about how to support students? Click here to open printable teacher and student resources. |
Monitor Weekly Data
Review your educator dashboard regularly to see which students are excelling and how needs support. Regular data review can also provide you an opportunity to identify those students who share what they do well or what they found exciting in the past week.
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To learn more about monitoring data in the educator dashboard:
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