Guided Reading

Ideas, resources, and a list of childrens' books that can be used to implement guided reading.

Is there too much emphasis on guided reading in primary classrooms? It's a question that many educators, like kindergarten teacher and literacy coach Cathy Mere, are starting to ask. Guided reading provides opportunities to teach students the strategies they need to learn how to read increasingly challenging texts, but Cathy found that she needed to find other ways to help students gain independence. While maintaining guided reading as an important piece of their reading program, teachers need to offer students opportunities during the day to develop as readers, to learn to choose books, to find favorite genres and authors, and to talk about their reading. In More Than Guided Reading, Cathy shares her journey as she moved from focusing on guided reading as the center of her reading program to placing children at the heart of literacy learning--not only providing more time for students to discover their reading lives, but also shaping instruction to meet the needs of the diverse learners in her classroom. By changing the structure of the day, Cathy found she was better able to adjust the support she was providing students, allowing time for whole-class focus lessons, conferences, and opportunities to share ideas, as well as reading from self-selected texts using the strategies, skills, and understandings acquired in reader's workshop. The focus lesson is the centerpiece of the workshop. It is often tied to a read-aloud and connected to learning from the previous day, helping to build skills, extend thinking, and develop independence over time. This thoroughly practical text offers numerous sample lessons, questions for conferences, and ideas for revamping guided reading groups. It will help teachers tweak the mix of instructional components in their reading workshops, and provoke school-wide conversations about the place of guided reading in a complete literacy curriculum.

In an era of change in education, the time is right to refocus attention on guided reading practices. Guided reading remains an anchor in classroom literacy programs, but how has it changed with the new shifts in education? In this book, Dr. Michael P. Ford provides a practical resource for guided reading. He explains how it evolved, why it's still important, how to fit it into a comprehensive literacy program, how to select texts, how to assess and support students, and how to position it for intervention. Also included is an Appendix with a listing of recommended guided reading books.

Provides a model for Guided Reading that can help teachers meet the varied needs of their K-3 students.

Guided Reading: Visualize for first and second grades enhances language arts lesson plans with 36 readers—six sets of two each for below-, on-, and above-level student readers. This resource book engages students with text and images as they learn about topics such as oceans, parks, multicultural celebrations, and more. Ready to Go Guided Reading: Visualize offers the essentials for an effective, comprehensive guided reading program for first and second grades. This book includes: -leveled readers that cover high-interest topics -prompts to encourage students to work with the text and text features -discussion guides -graphic organizers and an observation sheet The high-interest readers are separated into three readability levels and designed to keep students’ attention. Various callout boxes direct students to apply guided reading strategies to the texts, such as scanning for meaning or word work. Each reader concludes with a writing prompt. The 12-book Ready to Go: Guided Reading series for grades 1–6 includes everything you need for your guided reading program. Each 80-page reading comprehension resource book is essentially a guided reading set, containing 36 total readers, six discussion guides, and three reproducible pages. Four books are included in each grade span—each focuses on one of these essential reading comprehension strategies: -Analyze -Determine Importance -Synthesize -Visualize All readers contain short nonfiction texts and text features such as callout boxes, photographs, charts, and maps.

Guided Reading: Analyze for third and fourth grades includes 36 nonfiction readers—six sets of two each for below-, on-, and above-level student readers. The readers in this reading comprehension resource book feature informational text about nocturnal animals, movies, Australia, space, and more. Ready to Go: Guided Reading: Analyze provides everything you need to complete comprehensive guided reading lesson plans including: -discussion guides -prompts to encourage students to work with the text -leveled readers with intriguing topics -graphic organizers and an observation sheet Separated into three readability levels, these informational readers capture students’ attention with graphic charts, high-interest topics, colorful photos, and detailed maps. Students are encouraged to apply guided reading strategies to the text and respond to a writing prompt at the end of each reader. Available for grades 1–6, the 12-book Ready to Go: Guided Reading series promotes close reading by providing everything you need for leveled reading success. Each 80-page reading comprehension resource book features three reproducible pages, six discussion guides, and 36 readers. Each grade span includes four books, focusing on the following reading comprehension strategies: -Analyze -Determine Importance -Synthesize -Visualize Perfect for differentiation, each reader contains short nonfiction texts and text features such as photographs, charts, maps, and vocabulary banks.

The Guided Reading: Connect resource book for third and fourth grades features 36 readers—six sets of two each for below-, on-, and above-level student readers. Filled with photos and maps, this nonfiction resource features informational text about money, recycling, and more. Guided Reading: Connect provides you with a comprehensive reading program. Perfect for differentiated reading, each teacher resource book includes: -discussion guides -prompts to encourage students to work with the text and text features -leveled readers with intriguing topics -graphic organizers and an observation sheet Separated into three readability levels, informational readers capture students’ attention with graphic charts,detailed maps, and more. Students are encouraged to apply reading strategies to the text and complete writing prompts to prove comprehension. Available for grades 1–6, the 12-book Ready to Go: Guided Reading series improves reading organization with an all-in-one set. These 80-page reading resource books feature three reproducible pages, six discussion guides, and 36 readers. Each grade span includes four books, focusing on the following comprehension strategies: -Question -Infer -Connect -Summarize The Lexile (R) leveled readers contain short nonfiction texts and text features such as photographs, charts, maps, and callout boxes to keep students engaged.