F&P

While F&Ps are helpful for determining your students' just right reading level, they are even more useful as sources of data to drive your reading instruction. So don't file it away! Analyze it and provide your students with immediate feedback and teaching. For example, if a student relies on visual cues, but is not using meaning or structure cues to tackle unknown words, let him or her know that she's doing a great job of making sure the words look right, but needs to ask whether the words sound right and make sense too! Or if your student is reading at a good rate, but lacks expression that is guided by punctuation or tags, then let her know that she is reading not too fast and not too slow, and can become even more fluent by matching her voice to match the punctuation and the tags (said, whispered, yelled, etc.). Finally, see below for some ideas on next steps for kids who are working toward comprehension goals. These goals are based on the "Reading Strategies Book" by Jennifer Serravallo.