“What do you do with the rest of the class during guided reading?”
It's the #1 question I get asked about small group reading instruction.
We're in a 4-week series with solutions and answers to that BIG problem. In this video, I'll show you how just 3 markers can make it easy to group your students at their reading instructional level. I probably won't be talking about the usual suspects, though!
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Do you want to catch up to what you missed from last week about the FOUNDATION for ensuring kids are engaged during centers?
Catch us on Facebook Live the next 2 Tuesdays at 7 pm (EST; note the time change!!) for these follow-ups:
9/26 How to rely on the same, but differentiated, centers
10/3 Six centers to streamline your instruction
?? El Paso, TX
Hi Marnie, Danette
Kathy from PA here.
NYC – kindergarten
Janet from Illinois
Different: I am planning literacy centers
Different, because we do Daily 5.
Co teaching in a second grade – leveling
I wish to switch from just leveled readers’ groups
Yeah! You’re in the right place!!
Leveled
We used AIMS until last year
Is there a separate ‘class’ on those 3 literacy centers?
Have seen experienced 1st-2nd gap. I worked with upper level 1st graders last year, high sight words. This year they are in my struggling readers group because of phonetics.
Yes, it’s so common, Danette! Only when we move up the grades do we get the opportunity to see the gap.
ps
Yes! I like 3 or 4 as well
3-4
yes
you bet!
Regarding a “read to each other” literacy center: using this non-leveled grouping, will it work, being that they may be at different reading levels?
Great question!! Answered a little more than half-way through…
I have no assistant
No!!
Don’t wish to leave them out of readying to each other !
Amen.
Hope my admin won’t kill me for not grouping them by levels
Me too! Perhaps the proof will be in the pudding of improved reading in a few weeks?
What should I do for 3rd?
Great question! Answered near the end of the video.
Sorry–to be clear–your “word sort” etc were meant to be in which step…in small groups?
Sort It is great for instruction in small groups with the teacher. A variation of it can also be used for independent centers.
Switch it, read it, sort it = were small groups (I think)?
Yep!
Reading Simplified then they turn into literacy centers..at what appropriate point?
We are K
So they are not literacy groups..?
Not sure what you meant. Sorry Dawny.
The 3 strategies are meant to be:
Switch It, Read It, and Sort It. You can learn about them here:
ReadingSimplified.com/start-here
Yes you did answer my question. Thank you!
Oh good. Thanks for the good question, Beth! I hadn’t made that very clear originally.
1) guided reading activity -> 2) literacy centers?
See above. Good Q!
Mine didn’t show?
The 3 strategies are 1st meant to be a guided reading group -> they turn into literacy groups?
Dawny, the 3 activities I use during Guided Reading aren’t done Exactly that way during centers/stations. But if a group needs work on CVC blending (which we work on during Read It), then you can create something Similar during centers/stations.
I’ll show examples next week. Does this make sense, in general?
Midland, Texas
Glad to see a big Texas contingent! Welcome!
San Antonio
Welcome back Melody! 🙂
Levels
We are only allowed to have 3 groups
Wow, Shannon! I haven’t heard that issue before! Why? How many in your class?
22
Shannon, that’s a lot per group!
I might sub-divide my time between each group of 7-8. Had 3 or 4 working on one more independent activity an’d then teach explicitly to the other 3 or 4 on the side.
Houston, usually same
leveling
Different
Goleta CA
Text levels, MAP testing, AIMS web,
Good stuff, Alexis!!
Shreveport, La
Different, Handwriting, playdough words, Vocab, sightwords, re-reading, spelling games (switch it, sort it) painting, LEVELING
Your streamline pathway is brilliant
You made my day, Dianne!! ?
Switch it, Read it and Sort it. All found at readingsimplified.com (these activities are awesome)
I have a stuffed dog in our classroom which my students reread their reader to. They love it. The dog doesn’t judge them and they enjoy practising their reading.
Brilliant
I love your switch it game. I bought the new Banagrams which are called My First Banagrams. They have lowercase letter tiles which are also different colours. Even have double tiles with diagraphs and letter sounds like ee, ea, or th, ch, sh etc.
I’ve seen that advertised! Great use and good catch about the digraphs. So hard to find!
Trinidad and Tobago
Yeah Valerie! Thanks for tuning in!