Teaching small reading groups doesn’t have to be a chore. In fact, when guided reading is planned out properly, it can be an absolute joy to teach! You can make that dream of joyful teaching into reality when you take these 6 crucial steps to prepare your guided reading lessons! So where do we start…
Guided Reading…When you’re new at it, it can be challenging. Even when you’re NOT new at it! We primary teachers are constantly looking for that secret guided reading tip that will help our groups run more smoothly. We dream of having students who: Well, I may not have all the answers, but I can give…
Why is it so important to prompt and guide? Too often we teachers go home feeling like we have read hundreds of books, written dozens of essays, and solved pages and pages of math problems. By ourselves. It’s because we’ve done all the work…so exhausting! No wonder we are exhausted by the end of the…
I’ve had teachers ask me, “How do you get all of that reading instruction into 15 minutes?” and I tell them it’s because… Every Minute in Guided Reading Counts. Not only is it amazing what you can teach in one minute, but I’m going to show you how to do this. In one minute with…
Sight words, letters, sounds, word families, syllables, prefixes and suffixes… There’s a FLUENCY SPEED DRILL for that! And 2 minutes a day is all it takes. We all know the benefits of getting our 1st graders proficient with their sight words. For years, our team used flashcards, games, sentence strips, and everything we could think…
When we hear, “Teacher, how do you spell…?” We know we have not fostered the independence in learning that our students need. One goal we all have for our first graders is for them to become more self-sufficient learners and privacy folders do just that! Empowered Learners are: We empower our students when we provide…
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