Guided Reading Time

Do you do guided Reading in your classroom? I absolutely love guided reading! During this time, I love listening to my students read the text and answer the questions on their own!

Normally I use materials that I find, borrow or make but Carson Dellosa has made an amazing new product that makes guided reading more manageable and interesting! 

Click here for a link! 

This book has 6 different stories! There are 6 copies of each story and they are also leveled according to their Lexie level! There are 2 of each level: level 1 lexile level of 380 and 470, level 2 lexile level of 480 and 500 and level 3 lexile level 480 and 520. These stories are all laminated for durability!

These stories are so interesting that the kids just love reading them over and over! What is another great feature of this set is the discussion guides! There is a laminated discussion guide for each book. These questions are higher order thinking! 

The guided reading model allows them to make predictions, create questions, write their opinions and write downany new vocabulary! This is an awesome sheet to have during the lesson! It makes your kids accountable as well as help them dig deep into the text!

I love the making connections sheet as well. This gives them a graphic organizer to help make text to self and text to text connections! A great resource for your group! 

For the management and progress monitoring of your group, there is a guided reading observation sheet! This allows you to keep track of where your children are during each stage of reading (before, during and after) this provides so much valuable information and it is right at your finger tips!

You can either purchase this book in a hard copy or in eprint! This is a great option especially for those classrooms who are or are going to go paperless! Click here for the link to purchase!

Guided Reading is such an important time of day! This book provides us with the materials we need to have a successful small group experience! It is also a great resource for those who have to do RTI. You can use these stories and discussion guides with your higher level students!

I am a brand ambassador and this post contains my opinions! I have not been paid for my post or for the opinions I have provided. I received the materials and provided honest feedback! 

Reading Superpowers

It is getting to be that time of year again! The time of year when teaches start to think about and plan for back to school! Well, the one place you can not forget about is Oriental Trading! They have an amazing new sight for education!!!!! Click here to check out Learn365!!

When you see the picture below what do you think of?

 

I know many of you say Treasure Chest or reward box! And of course you would be right but when I saw it, I saw a guided reading superpower center!!! 

Instead of using this as a reward chest, I am using it for all the materials that my reading superheroes will be using to show me all of their reading strengths. This box is full of their "reading "superpowers"!

First we have their X-ray Vision Glasses! These are going to help them when they read the room looking for all the clues and task cards as well as when they are reading in small group!!!!

Alot of super heroes have a side kick! Our partner in reading is Bee boy! When we have him on our finger he helps us bee A Good Reader by helping us follow along and keep our place! 

 

It seems like super heroes have eyes everywhere! Well we have our second set of eyes to help us see our words and keep our place! 

Our super strength is shown when we can stretch out our words to hear the sounds by stretching our slinky and then put the slinky back together to blend the sounds! What super strength our amazing readers will be showing us!

Just like Batman, our super reading heroes have a super duty vehicle to help them read. These sound cars are amazing for them to stretch out and read their words and also for them to work on their reading fluency!!! 

And where are all of our super hero tools stored??? In our super power reading chest of course!!!

What better word to have on top of our reading chest then awesome! Because all of our super heroes will become awesome readers!!!

Thank you to Oriental Trading for once again having everything teachers need to create such amazing experiences and the materials our kids need to be successful!

My post is my own views and thoughts, Oriental Trading did not pay me for  this post! They did sponsor my post by sending me these amazing products!! 

 
 
 
 

 

 

 

 

Fluency with Hameray Publishing

In today’s classroom, there is a lot of focus on fluency! Children are supposed to be able to read to us as if they were talking to us. So we begin in the primary grades to focus on fluency using easy text.

In my room, I wanted my children to read fluently but not just fiction books. I wanted them to read nonfiction books as well. This is why I love the ZooZoo series by Hameray Publishing!

This series have a nonfiction section as well as a storytellers section. This allows us to bring in various texts that will peek their interests and ones that we can use during our guided reading groups as well.

The books we read were Zebras, Oh Zebra, Frog and Frogs Play.

As usual, we began by reviewing the vocabulary! Each book had some awesome words to review with my kids! I love having my kids come up with synonyms for the vocabulary words. They always surprise me with their ability to inference! I will review vocabulary two ways: just give them the word and allow them to try on their own and then build on to what they are saying or I will use the word in a sentence and have them use their context clues to figure out the meaning!

I love using fiction and nonfiction books together. It allows them to compare and contrast. They are also able to tell the difference in fiction and nonfiction using the texts as examples. These are common core standards in First Grade.

So before we read the fiction books, the kids made inferences! They looked at the cover and told me what they thought would happen. We would then read the stories to see if their inferences were correct.

With the nonfiction stories, they shared all that they thought they knew about the animal. We completed can, have, and are charts using the nonfiction texts.

The text in both the fiction and the nonfiction books  were perfect for my small group and my low readers! But all of my kids gravitate towards these books! They love the pictures and the easy to read text!

As I read the text to them, I stop and ask them questions. I also allow them to ask questions and to talk with a partner throughout the book.

I love these pages!!!!!!!!! Look below and click on the picture for the link to the series!

The Nonfiction Texts

The Fiction texts

I love how we can compare and contrast the two series. That is a common core standard for first grade. Comparing and contrasting two texts about the same topic. But we could also compare the texts against each other frogs and zebras. They were able to discuss the differences in environments and storylines as well as diet and life cycles.

 After we discussed the books we then completed some activities! The pages that we completed are below!  click on photos for link to worksheets

Have an awesome day!