I have taught whole class guided reading in my class for two weeks now. If you’re new to my site, check this post and this post to find out more about how and why I have decided to use this strategy. I’ve used this strategy for well over a year now and seen some great success,… Read More Whole Class Guided Reading: Structure and Differentiation
The hard part of making the switch to Whole Class Guided Reading is deciding to do it. Once you have committed to diving into it whole heartedly, the teaching, resourcing and assessment comes easily. In this post, I offer 5 steps for covering to whole class guided reading. Click here to see why and how I made the switch… Read More 5 Steps for Converting to Whole Class Guided Reading
As mentioned in previous posts, Whole Class Guided Reading: Scratching the Surface and Making a Start and Teaching Essential Reading Skills Beyond the Words, teaching inference skills to children is very complex and takes a lot of patience and guidance. To “infer” information from a text requires an awful lot of higher-order thinking, to which a lot of… Read More Teaching Inference through Pictures
As you may have noticed, I’ve mainly focused my attention on reading this term in my classroom. I’ve invested my spare time into researching and trying out different methods to hone in on these very important reading skills that my kids are struggling with. This post will shed light on some of the different ways… Read More Teaching Essential Reading Skills Beyond the Words
In my past two posts Guided Reading: How and Why and Whole Class Guided Reading: Scratching the Surface and Making a Start, I have scratched the surface on how I approach Whole Class Guided Reading. In this post, I am to outline exactly how a week of lessons look in my class from planning to activities, to… Read More Whole Class Guided Reading: A Week Of