Guided Reading: Making It Work Two Teachers Share Their Insights, Strategies, and Lessons for Helping Every Child Become a Successful Reader

by Schulman, Mary; Carleen, Payne; Payne, Carleen

• ISBN13: 9780439116398
• ISBN10: 0439116392
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-07-01
• Publisher: Scholastic Teaching Resources (Theory and Practice)

Summary

Guided reading is wonderful in theory, but how do you manage it? In this practical resource, two veteran teachers provide a step-by-step guide to guided reading, sharing their lesson plans, management strategies, and assessment tools. They show you how to manage flexible groups, match books to student needs, incorporate phonics, and use assessment to inform instruction. Transcripts of guiding reading sessions and lots of teacher prompts show exactly how guided reading can work for you. Also included is a list of over 650 book titles leveled by reading stage and by Reading Recovery levels. For use with Grades K-3.

Author Biography

Carleen daCruz Payne is a teacher at Centre Ridge Elementary School in Fairfax County, Virginia. Mary Browning Schulman teaches at William Halley Elementary in the same district. They are the authors of the best-selling Getting the Most Out of Morning Message and Other Shared Writing Lessons, a Scholastic Professional Book.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	5	(1)
Introduction	6	(2)
Guided Reading	8	(15)
What is Guided Reading?	12	(4)
Conditions for Learning	16	(2)
Guided Reading in a Balanced Literacy Program	18	(5)
Understanding the Reading Process	23	(14)
Sources of Information in Text	25	(3)
What Are Reading Strategies?	28	(3)
Using Prompts to Promote Reading	31	(2)
Phrasing in Fluent Reading	33	(4)
Literacy Stages and Book Selections	37	(13)
Four Stages of Reading Development	38	(10)
Emergent Readers	40	(2)
Progressing Readers	42	(2)
Transitional Readers	44	(2)
Fluent Readers	46	(2)
Matching Readers with Books	48	(2)
Setting Up and Managing Your Classroom for Guided Reading	50	(27)
When Are Children Ready for Guided Reading?	51	(2)
Choral Reading	53	(1)
Organizing Your Classroom for Guided Reading	54	(2)
Scheduling for Guided Reading	56	(4)
Grouping for Guided Reading	60	(4)
Setting Up Literacy Centers	64	(2)
Managing and Organizing Literacy Centers	66	(4)
Possible Literacy Centers for Reading and Writing	70	(7)
Guided Reading Lessons	77	(24)
Guided Reading Lesson with an Emergent Reading Group	80	(7)
Guided Reading Lesson with a Progressing Reading Group	87	(5)
Guided Reading Lesson with a Transitional Reading Group	92	(3)
Guided Reading Lesson with a Fluent Reading Group	95	(6)
Phonics and Word Study	101	(20)
Planning for Word Study	104	(1)
Some Principles for Letter and Word Study	105	(3)
Snapshots of Letter and Word Study During Guided Reading	108	(3)
Building Resources for Letter and Word Work within the Classroom	111	(10)
Assessment and Evaluation in Guided Reading	121	(46)
Assessment Tools	122	(32)
Letter Identification	123	(1)
Word Test	124	(1)
Concepts About Print	124	(2)
Writing Vocabulary Inventory	126	(1)
Spelling Inventory	127	(1)
Benchmark Books	128	(6)
Running Records	134	(6)
Scoring the Running Record	140	(1)
Analyzing the Running Record	141	(8)
Oral Retelling	149	(1)
Anecdotal Notes	149	(1)
Oral Interview	150	(1)
Book Graph	151	(1)
Reading Log Record	152	(1)
Writing Sample/Writing Sample Assessment Record/Writing Checklist	153	(1)
Quick Reference Assessment Chart	154	(6)
Gathering, Organizing, Storing, and Using Assessment Information	160	(6)
Closing Remarks	166	(1)
Appendix	167	(420)
Bibliography	168	(2)
Publisher Information	170	(4)
Book Titles and Levels	174	(56)
Books by Title	176	(27)
Books by Level	203	(27)
Reproducible Forms	230