Digital Reading Check‐ins: Supporting Independent Digital Reading

We know that teacher support during independent reading can greatly impact the growth and development of beginning readers. However, the rapid conversion to online learning in the 2020–2021 school year required teachers to rethink and retool traditional strategies to meet the needs of their online learners. This teaching and learning guide explores the use of a digital reading check‐in strategy to support beginning readers as they read independently on digital platforms. We explain how this strategy was implemented successfully in a first‐grade classroom and how it can be employed with any digital reading platform used in classrooms today.