Materials for

Guided Reading
This pack includes...
- 5 Big Ideas
- Color version: guided reading binder cover
- Black and white version of binder cover
- 2 versions of scheduling form:
2 groups a day or 3 groups a day
- Guided reading lesson plan
- Level Tracker for students to record
levels and goals met
- Good Readers Strategy Chart: Comprehension
and Decoding
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Classroom-Labels
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Guided Reading
Five Big Ideas
Purpose
To move readers & grow strategy
Consistency
Must be consistent to be effective
Instructional Level Text
Prompt at the point of difficulty
Focus on Strategy
Accuracy, Comprehension, or Fluency
Deliberate Choices by the Teacher
Space, records,and planning
Guided Reading
Binder
_______________
Guided Reading
Binder
_______________
Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday
Group
One
Group
Two
Guided Reading Schedule
Teacher: ______________
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Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday
Group
One
Group
Two
Group
Three
Guided Reading Schedule
Teacher: ______________
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Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday
Group
One
Group
Two
Group
Three
Group
Four
Guided Reading Schedule
Teacher: ______________
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Word Work
Strategy
Focus: Good
Readers...
Good readers... Good readers...
Text
Introduction/
Background
Knowledge
This text is about... This text is about...
Text
Structures,
Language, &
Text Walk
Purpose
Question
Guided Reading Lesson Plan Text: ___________________________________ Level: _______
Group: _____________ Members: ___________________________________________________
Prompts to
Support
Strategy
Retelling
Response to
Question
Praise Points
& Teaching
Point
Before Reading
During Reading
After Reading
Date: __________________ Date: __________________
Running
Record
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If a student...
Good Readers Strategy
focus for lesson
Prompts
Says the first letter sound and
guesses at the rest
Good readers read to the end of
the word.
Look at the end. Does that match
what you said?
Replaces sight words with other
sight words
Good readers read the exact
words on the page.
It could be ___, but look at ___.
Skips words or adds in words.
Good readers point and say a
word for each word on the page.
Did you read every word? Go
back and reread.
Says the wrong beginning sound.
Good readers get their mouth
ready to make the sound at the
beginning of the word.
Does that look right?
Reads words that dont make
sense in the text.
Good readers re-read and think
about if it makes sense.
You said ___. Does that make
sense?
Doesnt read endings of words.
Good readers read to the end of
the word.
Look at the end. Does that match
what you said?
Is overwhelmed by longer words
and reads nonsense sounds.
Good readers look for parts, or
chunks, they know.
Find a chunk/piece you know.
Replaces vowel sounds.
Good readers check their
vowels.
Whats the vowel? Whats the
sound?
Reads words that dont fit in the
syntax/structure of the
sentence.
Good readers whisper-read and
listen to see if it makes sense.
You said ___. Does that sound
right?
Reads each letter sound and
doesnt blend sounds into
digraphs/blends.
Good readers use vowel teams/
blends to read words.
Blend your sounds together to
make a blend/digraph.
Reads each set of sounds and
doesnt blend sounds into words.
Good readers put sounds
together to make words.
Blend your sounds together to
make word.
Reads the same vowel sound
every time (a is always long a,
etc.)
Good readers try different
vowel sounds if it doesnt make
sense.
Whats the vowel? What other
sound can you try? or Flip the
vowel sound.
Guided Reading: Good Readers Statements
Decoding: My kids doing ____. What do I do?!
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If a student struggles
with...
Good Readers Strategy focus for lesson
Main idea/determining
importance.
Good Readers stop and think about what is important.
They identify three-four important words/ideas in each
paragraph.Look for repeated ideas.
Retelling/Summarizing
Good Readers stop and think about what is important.
They identify who did what and use it to retell/
summarize beginning, middle, and end.
Recognizing text structure
Good Readers notice patterns in the text. They look
for clue words to identify how the author organized
information.
Visualizing
Good Readers use information from the text (and only
from the text) to create a picture of the text.
Monitor Comprehension
Good Readers stop and visualize to see if they
understand the text. If you dont, reread for details to
picture in your mind.
Identifying a Theme
Good Readers know that authors often want us to
learn a lesson. Look at how the characters solved a
problem. What positive word would state what the
characters learned?
Making character inferences.
Good Readers look for evidence about characters.
They notice what the character says, does, and what
others say about him/her.
Make reasonable predictions
about a characters next
actions
Good Readers use evidence about the character to
make predictions. Look at what lesson the character
learned and think about the next event that matches.
Identify cause-effect
relationships.
Good Readers notice relationships between ideas.
When you find an event, ask, Why did this happen? or
What will happen as a result?
Guided Reading: Good Readers Statements
Comprehension: My kids doing ____. What do I do?!
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