Feeling exhausted after guided reading? Are you working tirelessly while your students aren't even breaking a sweat? Do you ever wonder if other teachers feels the same way you do about guided reading--that it's not working the way you think it should? You are not alone. There seems to be much confusion surrounding guided reading--the term even means something different from school to school. Now you can turn to the 50 years of collective experience of authors Jan Burkins and Melody Croft to prevent guided reading from going astray in your classroom. Jan and Melody present personal clarifications, adaptations, and supports that have helped them work through their own tricky parts as they guide readers. The book's six chapters each clarify a misunderstanding about guided reading instruction in the following areas: The teacher's role and the gradual release of responsibility Instructional reading level Text gradients Balanced instruction Integrated processing Assessment With 27 strategies, you're sure to find the help you need to work through your own challenges as you guide groups of readers.
With over 50 years of collective reading experience, authors Jan Burkins and Melody Croft bring their expertise to Preventing Misguided Reading: Next Generation Guided Reading Strategies .
This new text is built in mind specifically for grades 3-5 teachers around best practices for the intermediate classroom.
We've written this book to support you in making sound decisions anchored in the best of science, the truth of responsiveness, and a relentless focus on providing all children learning experiences saturated with meaning, the authors write.
This new text is built in mind specifically for grades 3-5 teachers around best practices for the intermediate classroom.
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... 134–135 overscaffolding, 130–131, 134–135 prompts, 136, 137f, 138 selecting texts, 138–139 shared reading and, 59 underscaffolding, 134 understanding, 129–130 using, 3–4 Scaffolding with Storybooks (Justice and Pence), 76 Schlitz, ...
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Originally published in 1992. This book brings together the work of a number of distinguished international researchers engaged in basic research on beginning reading.