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

This resource-rich book includes planning and instructional tools, prompts, discussion starters, teaching points, intervention suggestions, and more to support all students. Plus, an online resource bank with downloadables and videos.

Jan Richardson's latest thinking on Guided Reading helps teachers take the next step forward to pinpoint instruction that supports every reader. Richardson uses the Assess-Decide-Guide framework to take a deep dive into each guided reading stage, covering PreA to Fluent readers, their needs, and the best ways to support and challenge them. A master reading teacher at all levels, Richardson skillfully addresses all the factors that make or break guided reading lessons: support for striving readers, strategies for reaching ELLs, making home-school connections--all with an unwavering focus on reading for deeper comprehension, to develop thoughtful, independent readers. The book includes dozens of must-have record-keeping, assessment, and reference forms, as well as how-to video links that provide show Jan in action with diverse readers.

Jan Richardson, Ph.D., is an educational consultant based in Wisconsin who has trained thousands of teachers and provided classroom demonstrations on guided reading. 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. Her newest title is Next Step Guided Reading in Action, a video-based professional development resource.