What Are You Grouping For?, Grades 3-8: How to Guide Small Groups Based on Readers - Not the Book

by Julie Wright, Barry Thomas Hoonan

Intermediate grade readers don’t need to be guided as much as they need to be engaged―and authors Julie Wright and Barry Hoonan have solutions for doing just that using small groups. You’ll get practical tools, classroom examples, and actionable steps essential for starting, sustaining, and mastering the management of small groups. This book explains the five teacher moves that work together to support students’ reading independence through small group learning―kidwatching, pivoting, assessing, curating, and planning―and provides examples to guide you and your students toward success. This resource will empower you with tools to ensure that readers are doing the reading, thinking, and doing― not you .

352 pages, Paperback

Published September 3, 2018

About the author

\Julie Wright wrote her first book when she was fifteen. Since then, Julie Wright books have received several starred reviews, have been chosen as Teen Readers’ Choice Award Nominees, Junior Library Guild Gold Standard selections, Tome Society Book Award winners, Whitney Award winners, and have been listed in the American Library Association’s top ten romances.

She’s a sucker for almost all things nerdy: Doctor Who, Disneyland, the Marvel Universe, Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings, fairytales, and Jane Austen. She believes in second chances, getting up and trying again, and in the power of generosity and compassion.

She has one husband, six kids, two grandbabies, one dog, and a varying number of houseplants (depending on attrition). She loves writing, reading, traveling, snorkeling, hiking, playing with her family, and watching her husband make dinner.