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Teaching and Tapas

| by Alyssha Swanson

reading strategy groups with passages

Reading Strategy Groups: FREEBIE!

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Total Pages: 13
File Size: 6 MB

Categories: * Strategy Groups, - FREE!, GRADE LEVEL - 2nd Grade, GRADE LEVEL - 3rd Grade, GRADE LEVEL - 4th Grade Tags: 2nd, 3rd, 4th, Close Reading, Guided Reading Books, Informational Text, Lesson Plans (Individual), Literacy Center Ideas, Reading Strategies
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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…

  • Unit 1: Reading Foundation(5 reading group lessons)
  • Unit 2: Understanding Characters (16 reading group lessons)
  • Unit 3: Text Features and Text Structure (17 reading group lessons)
  • Unit 4: Vocabulary and Figurative Language(9 reading group lessons)
  • Unit 5: Main Idea and Key Details(17 reading group lessons)
  • Unit 6:  Fluency (10 reading group lessons)
  • Unit 7: Theme (9 reading group lessons)
  • Unit 8:  Author’s Purpose (6 reading group lessons)
  • Unit 9: Story Elements and Summarizing (14 reading group lessons)

 

WANT TO TRY A ★FREE★ SAMPLE READING GROUP LESSON?

  • PLOT VS. THEME FREE STRATEGY GROUP LESSON

 

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– Alyssha Swanson
Teaching and Tapas: American Teacher in Spain

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MEET ALYSSHA

I am a reading teacher and traveler at heart. I spent most of my teaching career abroad, teaching in international schools (most recently: Spain). I am now back in the good 'ol USA, helping teachers figure out how to make reading instruction simple and fantastically effective. Take a peek around and contact me if you have questions! Read More…

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