Guided Reading: One Lesson, All Levels, Any Text

(1-4) Research demonstrates what skilled readers do, and every student needs the same strategies. This book offers 50 teacher-tested lessons created by reading specialists and shows you how to: teach one lesson to your whole class or small groups, and still differentiate scaffold support to struggling readers create flexible groups to meet your students` diverse needs Each core lesson includes an adaptable sample mini-lesson. Add texts at your students` instructional levels plus materials that you have on hand to create lessons that work for every child. Effective reading is all about the thinking, so you`ll find lessons on metacognitive strategies including: activating prior knowledge visualizing inference connecting to text Students practice applying strategies with text at their instructional levels, within their comfort zones--where every student learns best. The lessons in Guided Reading are ones your students will use with all their reading, throughout the day and across the curriculum. (1-4) 144 pp.

Kathy Hartzold has been teaching for twenty-six years. Her experience includes teaching in Title 1 and teaching first grade. She is now a reading specialist at Chatham Elementary School in Chatham,Illinois. Kathy received the Ball-Chatham Community School District's Award for Excellence and she was among the top 10 teacher finalists for her state's 1998 Award for Excellence. She has also been a presenter at the Reading Recovery Conference. Her passion is helping struggling readers to become confident and to improve their literacy skills. Tricia Burke began her career in education as a classroom teacher. She has taught kindergarten through second grade and now, as a reading specialist, she works with first, second, and third graders. An award-winning teacher in her district of Ball-Chatham,Illinois, Tricia loves to collaborate with and learn from other educators. Her passion is teaching young childrento read, and she continually searches for new ways to reach struggling readers.