The Guided Reading Teacher S Companion

"In this guide, you'll find prompts, discussion starters, and teaching points to use during guided reading when you want students to process more effectively, think more deeply, and express their ideas more thoughtfully. The sturdy pages and stand-up binding make this guide easy to use while working with small groups. However, the prompts, discussion starters, and teaching points are not meant to be used en masse or in strict sequence. Choose them carefully, based on behaviors you're noticing in your students. Use them as starting points for in-depth inquiry. Revise them as necessary to meet your students' needs. Make them your own -- and listen carefully to how students respond."--"How to use this guide," page 1.

In this convenient flip-chart guide, you can easily find prompts, discussion starters, and teaching points to use when you want students to process more effectively, think more deeply, and express their ideas more thoughtfully. The self-standing guide with sturdy pages makes it convenient to use while working with small groups. Instantly, you can use these tools as starting points for in-depth inquiry based on behaviors you're noticing in students. There are also recommendations on how to revise them as necessary to meet every reader's needs.

Teachers and teacher educators asked for: the latest research on literacy more information about national standards ways to consider gender in instruction advice for teaching Advanced Placement classes ideas for teaching media literacy and incorporating technology effectively into instruction even more resources for mentoring new teachers analysis of how trends in society, culture, and politics impact teachers and their classrooms. And Jim delivers. He has revamped his introductory chapters on literacy learning to include up-to-the-minute thinking from the field, and he has incorporated lists of key standards and helpful suggestions for reaching them. His practical strategies turn recent findings on literacy and gender into well-designed, research-based instruction, and his ideas help you meet the very different needs of AP students by understanding their goals and providing them with appropriate challenges.

This book covers the entire English curriculum, from basic reading and writing to digital literacy, media literacy, and integrated instruction.

This warm and practical guidebook by celebrated author and educator Ralph Fletcher demystifies the teaching of writing and shows how to engage every student.

This resource-rich book includes planning and instructional tools, prompts, discussion starters, teaching points, intervention suggestions, and more to support all students. Plus, an online resource bank with downloadables and videos. Jan Richardson's latest thinking on Guided Reading helps teachers take the next step forward to pinpoint instruction that supports every reader. Richardson uses the Assess-Decide-Guide framework to take a deep dive into each guided reading stage, covering PreA to Fluent readers, their needs, and the best ways to support and challenge them. A master reading teacher at all levels, Richardson skillfully addresses all the factors that make or break guided reading lessons: support for striving readers, strategies for reaching ELLs, making home-school connections--all with an unwavering focus on reading for deeper comprehension, to develop thoughtful, independent readers. The book includes dozens of must-have record-keeping, assessment, and reference forms, as well as how-to video links that provide show Jan in action with diverse readers.

Jim Burke connects the why of teaching English/Language Arts to the how. He looks comprehensively at the research and reality of classrooms, provides practical and thoughtful methods for meeting ELA standards, and shares assessments that show what students know. --