The Guided Reading Classroom

by Witherell, Nancy L.

• ISBN13: 9780325009247
• ISBN10: 0325009244
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-02-19
• Publisher: Heinemann

Summary

"The Guided Reading Classroom" is a different kind of book on guided reading. It takes a bird's eye view of your literacy teaching, offering commonsense, useable answers to that persistent instructional question: What do you do with the rest of the class while you're leading a small group?ssNancy Witherell helps ensure that the rest of your guided reading classroom engages in independent learning activities that support both students' growth in reading and your specific curriculum goals. Witherell offers a variety of ideas for organizing your reading instructional time to make the most of students' independent time, including minilessons that prepare students for individual work, during-reading activities that help them retain what they are learning, and after-reading follow-ups. But "The Guided Reading Classroom" goes well beyond managing instruction, offering a range of long-term projects and center-based independent activities that challenge students to work by themselves and to make consistent, thoughtful use of their developing reading abilities.sFilled with organization tips, classroom scenarios, a sample weekly plan, and reproducible materials, "The Guided Reading Classroom "gives you an overview of dynamic classrooms in action and ways to increase your instructional effectiveness. With specific answers to teachers' most frequently asked questions, a practical, encouraging tone, and a flexible framework designed to work as effectively for teachers as it does with students, "The Guided Reading Classroom "is an ideal resource for every literacy teacher who does guided reading and wants to do it better.

Table of Contents

Why guided reading fits into a comprehensive language arts program	p. 1
Organizing group and independent activity time	p. 10
Minilessons : preparing for independent success	p. 18
How to structure independent activities throughout the reading lesson	p. 25
Prereading independent activities	p. 37
During reading independent and collaborative activities to improve comprehension	p. 50
Postreading independent and collaborative activities as follow-up	p. 64
Ensuring success of long-term projects : guidelines and troubleshooting	p. 81
Ideas for independent long-term projects	p. 95
Minilessons for center preparation	p. 115
Using centers effectively and with accountability	p. 123
More ideas for stationary, portable, and mobile centers	p. 132
How it works	p. 151
Putting it all together	p. 159
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