How do I see where each student is in their book?
Step by step · Updated
Open Status of the Class from your class Home. Each student has a row: the book they're on, the page they've reached, when that page last moved, how much they read in the last 7 days next to their usual week, and a note when something might be worth a conversation. Only teachers see this page. Students never see the notes, and the page never ranks students.
Read the page
- On your class Home, click Status of the Class → under your students' tiles, or the Status of the Class card under Understand readers.
- Students are listed in roster order. Click Needs a look first to put students with a note at the top. Or click a column heading to sort by it: Student (A to Z), How far (least of the way through first) or Last update (longest since their page moved first). Click it again to sort the other way, or click Roster order to go back. Students with no open book stay at the bottom.
- Click a note at the top (for example Stalled) to show only those students. Click Everyone to see the whole class again.
- Click a student's row to open their panel, with their week, recent books and quizzes.
To record every student's page in a few minutes a day, open the first student's panel and work down the class with the arrow keys: see How do I record every student's page in a daily check-in?.
| Column | What it shows |
|---|---|
| Reading | Each book they're reading, with its cover and where it sits against their reading range (Reading levels and ZPD). A student reading two books at once gets a line for each, the one updated most recently first; the notes go by that first book. +2 set aside counts books still open but untouched for 2 weeks or more: point at it to see them. |
| How far | "p. 142 of 288 · 49%" and a bar. A picture book shows Picture book. |
| Last update | When the book's page last moved, or when they started it if they haven't logged a page yet |
| Last 7 days | Pages read in the last 7 days, today included, then usually: their typical week over the 4 weeks before, and goal: their weekly page goal, if your class has a weekly pages baseline. In K–2 classes and on picture books this counts books instead. |
| Worth a look | The notes below |
See it from Home and Marian
- On Home, a student's tile shows a small pink number in its top corner: how many things are under Needs you in their panel. That's these notes, plus quiz requests, finished books to certify, rewards to hand out, and a line when they haven't signed in or read lately. Hover the tile to see which. Only teachers see it.
- Click a student's tile or name: their panel lists each note under Needs you with what it saw ("Stalled · no new page since Oct 13"), and Reading now shows each book they're reading with its page and when it last moved, as on this page. Books set aside are listed under it: click Stopped to close one they've put down. It's closed on the day its page last moved, so clearing old books doesn't count toward Stopped 2 books, and Undo in the note that pops up takes it back.
- To fix a stalled or between-books note yourself, update Reading now in the panel: type the page they're on next to Now on p. and press Enter, or click Finished (Undo in the note that pops up takes it back). With no book open, the panel says so ("Caitlyn isn't reading anything right now.") and helps you suggest their next book: search for one, or click Suggest beside a book under Or suggest one of these (the next book in their series, or one classmates are reading or just finished). A suggested book stays in the panel marked You suggested it until they start it: click Started it when they begin it, or × to take it back. A book a co-teacher or the student's parent (with Reader Plus) suggested shows their name instead, and only they can take it back. If they've already started a book, click Add it to Reading now under Already reading one? and search for it. A page past the book's end finishes it at that many pages, for a longer edition. A page lower than one logged on an earlier day isn't saved: change that day in the book's Log instead.
- To give a student a page to reach each day in the book they're on, click + Set a reading plan under it in their panel: see How do I set daily page goals for a student?.
- Ask Marian What's the status of the class? for everyone with a note, strongest first, or Who is stalled? for one note.
What the notes mean
| Note | When it shows |
|---|---|
| Above range and stalled | Like Stalled, on a book above their reading range |
| Between books | Finished a book 5 or more days ago and has none open. A student who has never finished a book isn't between books. |
| Stopped 2 books | Stopped two or more books in the last 30 days |
| Stalled | No new page in 7 days or more, and nothing else read in those 7 days. A student who finished or logged pages in another book that week isn't stalled: the open book's Last update still shows how long it has sat. |
| Quieter than usual | Under half their usual week. It needs reading in at least 3 of the 4 weeks before, so a new student isn't flagged. It doesn't show beside Stalled, which already says the pages stopped. |
| Slow going | At their pace over the last 2 weeks, finishing the book would take 4 weeks or more |
One stopped book is never flagged: trying a book and putting it down is what confident readers do. The notes are a reason to start a conversation, not a verdict.
Why rows are blank
The page shows what students record. A student with No open book hasn't marked a book as reading. A student updates the book they're reading from the card beside it in their Reading Journey, so the page fills in as students sign in. See How students record reading.
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