Teaching Reading in Small Groups : Differentiated Instruction for Building Strategic, Independent Readers

by Serravallo, Jennifer; Calkins, Lucy

• ISBN13: 9780325026800
• ISBN10: 0325026807
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-01-26
• Publisher: Heinemann Educational Books Ltd

Summary

In Teaching Reading in Small Groups, Jennifer Serravallo extends the powerful teaching that made Conferring with Readers a hit and helps you meet instructional challenges effectively and efficiently.

Author Biography

Jennifer Serravallo came to New York City to develop her passion for urban education reform. While working on her masters at Teachers College, Columbia University, she taught in two Title I schools with swelling class sizes, high numbers of Ells, and an enormous range of learners. She's now a full-time staff developer and national consultant with the Teachers college Reading and Writing project, where she helps urban, suburban, and rural schools implement exceptional literacy instruction through reading and writing workshop. What she shares in Teaching Reading in Small Groups comes form the work in her classroom and from the classrooms where she consults.

Table of Contents

Recommendations for Reading and Returning to This Book	p. vi
Foreword	p. ix
Acknowledgments	p. xi
Beyond Reading Croups, Beyond Guided Reading	p. 1
Small-Croup Instruction and The five Reading Tenets	p. 5
The Last Word	p. 14
Forming Croups: Making the Invisible Visible Through Assessment	p. 15
Some Principles of Assessment	p. 18
Assessing Engagement	p. 20
Assessing Fluency	p. 31
Assessing Print Work Strategies	p. 38
Assessing Comprehension	p. 43
Assessing Conversation	p. 61
Preplanned Groups Versus Impromptu Groups	p. 65
The Last Word	p. 66
Without Engagement We've Got Nothing: Helping Children Want to Read	p. 67
The Urgency of the Engagement Problem	p. 70
Mentoring Headers into Developing a Reading Identity	p. 71
Talking Up Books in Groups	p. 79
Small Groups to Self-Monitor and Fix Up Disengagement	p. 81
Self-Assigning Reading Goals for Purposeful Reading	p. 85
Sign-Up Seminars to Energize Learners	p. 93
The Last Word	p. 95
Guided Practice Toward Independence: Strategy Lessons for Comprehension, Print Work, and Fluency	p. 97
Why Strategy Lessons?	p. 98
Strategy Lessons at a Glance: Structure	p. 99
Explicit Strategies, Effective Demonstrations, Just-Right Prompts	p. 109
Releasing Scaffolding over Time	p. 117
The Last Word	p. 120
Talking About Books: Improving Partnerships and Clubs	p. 123
Supporting Book Cuba and Partnerships	p. 124
Differentiated Partnership Work: Kindergarten to Second Grade	p. 125
Read-Aloud Book Clubs: First Grade and Up	p. 131
Chapter Introduction* for Clubs: Second Grade and Up	p. 135
Teaching During Partnership and Club Talk	p. 146
The Last Word	p. 150
Reading with Fluency and Expression: Shared Reading, Warm-Up and Transfer Groups, and Performance Clubs	p. 153
Shared Reading: Assessment-Based Support from Teachers and Peers	p. 155
Warm-Up and Transfer Groups	p. 163
Performance Clubs	p. 167
The Last Word	p. 171
Moving Readers to the Next Level; Text-Level Introduction Groups	p. 173
What Is Adequate Progress?	p. 175
Getting to Know Leveled Books	p. 178
Getting to Know Your Readers Within a Level	p. 186
Ten-Level Introduction Groups: An Alternative to Guided Reading	p. 189
The Last Word	p. 196
Organizing and Managing Small-Croup Conferring: Common Questions	p. 198
Reading Workshop Basics	p. 199
Visualizing the Room	p. 206
Keeping Track	p. 211
Scheduling Yourself	p. 216
The Last Word	p. 220
References	p. 221
Children's literature	p. 225
Index	p. 227
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