guided reading

Making Literature Circles Work

Submitted by crazycatgirl on Sun, 11/29/2009 - 11:16

I'm wondering if anyone has any great resources for literature circles. I feel that I don't know how to do them very well and my students certainly don't know how to do them either. I'd like to teach a unit on how to do literature circles.

It might just be two weeks or a week for the whole class and more weeks for the groups that will do literature circles.

I'd like to teach this to my 3rd and 4th graders who are above or not extremely below level. All the kids who are at a L or higher I believe would benefit from thinking deeply about their reading and discussing it.

Literature Circles as Guided Reading for Older Students

November 15th, 2009 | posted by thomasr518

How does everybody feel about the use of literature circles as a means of addressing guided reading with older students?

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Guided Reading with Emergent Readers: The First Teaching Points

October 22nd, 2009 | posted by crazycatgirl

For my beginning readers, around levels A and B, I try to start out with the following teaching points or content objectives in the first few sessions:

point to all the words
get your mouth ready
use the pictures
does it make sense?

Because I have struggling readers at this level in 1st and 2nd grade, I try to infuse shared reading into our guided reading sessions by making strategy chants or songs.

Reading Chant: How to Introduce Accuracy, Fluency, Expression and Phrasing with the Reading Chant

October 17th, 2009 | posted by crazycatgirl

Lesson Subject:

Language Arts

Lesson Topic:

Independent Reading

Grade Level:

Grades 3-5

Learning Target(s)/Objective(s) for This Lesson:

SWBAT state/know and define the different expectations for reading independently.

The Daily Five: Trouble with Stamina

September 23rd, 2009 | posted by crazycatgirl

Many of you in the Seattle area may be familiar with the Daily Five, written by the Kent sister teaching duo. Since my school and much of my district is moving to Writers' Workshop, the Readers' Workshop model is also gaining in popularity. Several of us are now implementing the Daily Five as our reading workshop. I love the Daily Five because it involves really teaching kids the routines, and I have some challenges with bringing all my kids on board.

Guided Reading: After Reading

March 19th, 2009 | posted by crazycatgirl

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Today was the last in a series of trainings I attended with a cohort on Balanced Literacy and NUA (National Urban Alliance). Our balanced literacy component focus for the day was guided reading. Our thinking map of the day was a flow map. To combine the two we discussed guided reading as three or four parts: planning, before reading/priming, during reading/processing and after reading/retaining.

After Reading

Reading Workshop Unit of Study: Personal Responses

December 1st, 2008 | posted by crazycatgirl

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For my 4th and 5th grade advanced English Language Learner (ELL) guided reading groups, I've been teaching using the teaching points from a unit of study off of the Columbia Teacher's College Reading and Writing Project website. The units were written by Lucy Calkin's graduate students and are very well developed, but tweakable.