Learning new words and making meaning is a cornerstone of ELA education. In an attempt to build up student schema and language mastery, we’ve often relied on class-wide vocabulary lists and word walls, which are usually rotated in and out depending on the communal literature being read, to create learning experiences for our students.
A Reading Scoreboard is basically a spreadsheet that tracks the statistics of reading engagement per student and class. It captures the amount of books students have read and worked through and slices the data into subcategories such as amount of pages read per day or number of annotative comments each student has provided.