Reading Strategy Groups: FREEBIE!

Description

Two FREE strategy group lessons that are ready to print and go! Both lessons include:
– WARM UP: Four quick tasks that review prior knowledge and introduce the strategy.
– PRACTICE: A complete high-interest passage that includes thoughtful prompts for you and the students to discuss, write, think, skim, etc.
– INDEPENDENT PRACTICE: Send your students off with accountability practice.
– MISC: Conferring note pages and lesson planning pages are included.

EVERYTHING IN HERE IS READY TO GO
If you have skilled reading volunteers or aides in your classroom, they can easily run these groups while you are working with other students.

IS THIS DIFFERENT FROM GUIDED READING?
Yes. Strategy groups rely on teaching your students a reading strategy that they can and will use while independently reading. This type of grouping is not strictly confined to the student’s reading level. Strategy groupings should be flexible so that we can get far, far away from kids who identify as a level, such as “I’m in the purple reading group” or “I am supposed to read level M books.”

Strategy groups rely on you knowing what your individual students need to work on. Do you have a few students who read like robots? Let’s work on it together in a strategy group. Do you have a group of students who struggle identifying the main idea of a text? Let’s work on it in a strategy group. Do you have students who are ready to start describing theme? Let’s work on it in a strategy group.

HOW DO I USE THIS?
Strategy groups work well in all classroom settings. A best practice that all classroom teachers should employ is frequently checking in and conferring with students. When you confer with your students during reading, you see what reading skills and strategies they have mastered and what strategies they need help with. In my classroom, I teach a group lesson everyday. For two days of the week, I confer with students after the group lesson. While conferring, I check in with students to see where they are in their learning. I take notes of the types of instruction each student needs next. I use this information to form my next strategy groups. Overall, I am flexible. On some weeks, I spend more time on conferring and some weeks I spend more time on strategy groups.

One incredible feature of the included reading strategy passages is that the discussion prompts are all included. Everything is print and go! If you have skilled reading volunteers or aides in your classroom, they can easily run these groups while you are working with other students.

WANT MORE?
Check out the full product line…
– Main Idea {Non-Fiction – 4 Lessons}
– Author’s Purpose {Non-Fiction – 4 Lessons}
– Key Details {Non-Fiction – 5 Lessons}
– Text Features {Non-Fiction – 10 Lessons}
– Fluency {10 Lessons}
– Summarizing {Fiction – 7 Lessons}
– Understanding Characters {Fiction -10 Lessons}
– Theme {Fiction -6 Lessons}
– Vocabulary and Context Clues {Fiction -6 Lessons}
– Free Sample!­ (Complete DIFFERENTIATED lesson teaching Plot vs. Theme)
→→→→ Reading Strategy Groups: NON-FICTION BUNDLE (Main Idea, Author’s Purpose, Key Details, Text Features)­
→→→→ Reading Strategy Groups: FICTION BUNDLE (Summarizing, Understanding Characters, Theme, Vocabulary)­
→→→→ Reading Strategy Groups: MEGA BUNDLE (Includes ALL of the units listed above)

– Alyssha Swanson
Teaching and Tapas: American Teacher in Spain