The Next Step Forward in Guided Reading: An Assess-Decide-Guide Framework for Supporting Every Reader

Jan Richardson’s highly anticipated update to the classic bestseller, The Next Step in Guided Reading, helps you and your students move forward. You’ll find all the planning and instructional tools you need to teach guided reading well, from pre-A to fluent. Organized around Richardson’s proven Assess-Decide-Guide framework, this new resource includes 29 comprehension modules, more than 50 streaming video lessons, and dozens of downloadables.

Jan Richardson’s highly anticipated update to the classic bestseller The Next Step in Guided Reading helps you and your students move forward.

In this resource-rich book, you'll find:

• All the planning and instructional tools you need to teach guided reading well, from pre-A to fluent, organized around Richardson's proven Assess-Decide-Guide framework.
• Prompts, discussion starters, teaching points, word lists, intervention suggestions, and more to support all students, including dual language learners and struggling readers.
• 29 comprehension modules that cover essential strategies-monitoring, retelling, inferring, summarizing, and many others.
• Plus an online resource bank with dozens of downloadable assessment and record-keeping forms, Richardson's all-new, stage-specific lesson plan templates.
• More than 50 videos showing Jan modeling key parts of guided reading lessons for every stage.

Jan Richardson, Ph.D., is an educational consultant who has trained thousands of teachers and provided classroom demonstrations on guided reading. Dr. Richardson is the best-selling author of The Next Step Forward in Guided Reading (Scholastic) and coauthor of Next Step Guided Reading Assessment (Scholastic). A former teacher, she has taught in every grade, K–12. She has been a reading specialist, a Reading Recovery teacher leader, and a staff developer.