Teaching Reading in Small Groups: Differentiated Instruction for Building Strategic, Independent Readers
For teachers who sometimes feel as if data-based instruction, differentiated groupings, and formative assessments somehow involve going over to The Dark Side, this book is a powerful antidote. It will help you know that you can hold tight to your deepest beliefs about children and literature, classrooms communities, and good teaching.\ -Lucy Calkins\ \ \ Author of Units of Study for Teaching Reading\ In Teaching Reading in Small Groups, Jennifer Serravallo extends the powerful teaching that...
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For Teachers who somtimes feel as if date—based instructions, differentiated groupings, and formative assessments somhoe involve going over to The DArk Side, this book is a powerful antidote. It will help you know that you can hold tight to your deepest beliefs about children and literature, classroom communities, and good teaching.
Recommendations for Reading and Returning to This Book viForeword Lucy Calkins ixAcknowledgments xi1 Beyond Reading Croups, Beyond Guided Reading 1Small-Croup Instruction and The five Reading Tenets 5The Last Word 142 Forming Croups: Making the Invisible Visible Through Assessment 15Some Principles of Assessment 18Assessing Engagement 20Assessing Fluency 31Assessing Print Work Strategies 38Assessing Comprehension 43Assessing Conversation 61Preplanned Groups Versus Impromptu Groups 65The Last Word 663 Without Engagement We've Got Nothing: Helping Children Want to Read 67The Urgency of the Engagement Problem 70Mentoring Headers into Developing a Reading Identity 71Talking Up Books in Groups 79Small Groups to Self-Monitor and Fix Up Disengagement 81Self-Assigning Reading Goals for Purposeful Reading 85Sign-Up Seminars to Energize Learners 93The Last Word 954 Guided Practice Toward Independence: Strategy Lessons for Comprehension, Print Work, and Fluency 97Why Strategy Lessons? 98Strategy Lessons at a Glance: Structure 99Explicit Strategies, Effective Demonstrations, Just-Right Prompts 109Releasing Scaffolding over Time 117The Last Word 1205 Talking About Books: Improving Partnerships and Clubs 123Supporting Book Cuba and Partnerships 124Differentiated Partnership Work: Kindergarten to Second Grade 125Read-Aloud Book Clubs: First Grade and Up 131Chapter Introduction* for Clubs: Second Grade and Up 135Teaching During Partnership and Club Talk 146The Last Word 1506 Reading with Fluency and Expression: Shared Reading, Warm-Up and Transfer Groups, and Performance Clubs 153Shared Reading: Assessment-Based Support from Teachers and Peers 155Warm-Up and Transfer Groups 163Performance Clubs 167The Last Word 1717 Moving Readers to the Next Level; Text-Level Introduction Groups 173What Is Adequate Progress? 175Getting to Know Leveled Books 178Getting to Know Your Readers Within a Level 186Ten-Level Introduction Groups: An Alternative to Guided Reading 189The Last Word 1968 Organizing and Managing Small-Croup Conferring: Common Questions 198Reading Workshop Basics 199Visualizing the Room 206Keeping Track 211Scheduling Yourself 216The Last Word 220References 221Children's literature 225Index 227
