So what do I need to be able to do small group teaching?

 Your a Teacher now, you have your routines established, your expectations set, so what am I forgetting?


Teaching in small groups requires preparation.  What type of preparation?


1.  Teachers need to analyze student Benchmark Running Records to determine point of instruction.



2.  Group students accordingly and then make sure you understand what students should be able to do or do with the text you plan on using for instruction
       
             Where can you find this?   If your school used Fountas and Pinell's Benchmark assessments, there is a book entitled the Reading Continuum in the kit.  I referred to it in an earlier post.  It  lays out the characteristics of the book levels as well as skills that can be addressed from books of that level.  If not do what teachers do best, search pinterest, TPT sitores or just type in URL bar:  Reading Level Descriptors.

3.  As a teacher, you must read the guided reading book ahead of time so you can determine what  difficulties students will have as well as skills you can address.

4.  Teacher needs to make sure they understand the MSV  in order to work with students in relation to how they are processing a text.  Here is a visual that I downloaded off the Internet and that I carry in m binder during instruction.

5.  Teachers should prepare comprehension questions ahead of time,  These questions should reflect the three types of thinking that is required of readers as noted on the Running Record forms.  

6.  The last thing teachers should make sure to do during small group instruction is to make sure to incorporate some type of word work:  Vowels sounds, HF words, Blends, making and building words etc.  

Teachers must be willing to study and do the work so they can be prepared and not be playing it by ear. You want to be prepared.  Here are 2  books I highly recommend.  for teachers of Reading. There is another book for primary teachers entitled:  Guided Reading:  Good First Teaching for all Children by Fountas and Pinell

   

                 

 However, what teachers  really need is to make sure they have a way to organize and keep up with the information they are collecting from conferring, running records, progress monitoring, mentor charts and text as well as lesson plans.

So Stay tuned  for my next few blog:  So I need a Guided Reading Binder?

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