What to Teach in Small Group Reading (Besides Phonics)
Recently, I was talking with a kindergarten teacher about small group instruction. This extremely seasoned teacher felt unsure about next steps for her students. In essence, she said that she…
How to Improve Your Guided Reading Lessons
Among many terms in the reading world, Guided Reading is another that’s misunderstood, and I’ve written about those misunderstandings here. If we’re being honest, it’s also a place where we’ve…
Mistakes We’ve Made with Guided Reading
Among many other things in literacy instruction, small group instruction–especially guided reading– has become yet another term that’s widely misunderstood and therefore widely misconstrued…and hotly debated. For whatever reason, small…