(1-4) Research demonstrates what skilled readers do, and every student needs the same strategies. This book offers 50 teacher-tested lessons created by reading specialists and shows you how teach one lesson to your whole class or small groups, and still differentiate scaffold support to struggling readers create flexible groups to meet your students` diverse needs Each core lesson includes an adaptable sample mini-lesson. Add texts at your students` instructional levels plus materials that you have on hand to create lessons that work for every child. Effective reading is all about the thinking, so you`ll find lessons on metacognitive strategies activating prior knowledge visualizing inference connecting to text Students practice applying strategies with text at their instructional levels, within their comfort zones--where every student learns best. The lessons in Guided Reading are ones your students will use with all their reading, throughout the day and across the curriculum. (1-4) 144 pp.
This book would be good for a college student or someone just starting to teach reading. I feel it is really geared toward first grade. I was looking for a book that would offer something new to me, a long time teacher. Unfortunately this was not the book for that.