Guided Reading, First Grade Synthesizing—Talk about the pair
The lesson offers students an opportunity to revisit, summarize, and extend their thinking about the key concepts of the two paired texts.
Guided Reading, Third Grade Session 1 with the informational text, Amazing Salamanders
The lesson begins with students rereading a text from a previous guided reading lesson to think more about the strategies they use as readers. The teacher takes a reading record with one student while the other students read silently. Collaboration goals for all the lessons: Students are working on explain their thinking fully to the group, waiting until others are finished speaking before talking, and [...]
Guided Reading, Third Grade Session 2 with the fiction text, The Salamander Surprise
The teacher reminds students to continue to note in what in the text supports their ideas. Students discuss Chapters 2-4, continuing to figure out the story (characters, setting, and plot and how they connect) by thinking about what is revealed through what characters say, do, and think and how they interact with others (the relationships between characters).
Guided Reading, Third Grade Session 1 with the fiction text, The Salamander Surprise
The students begin the lesson by revisiting their collaboration goals. The lesson with Salamander Surprise starts with a quick noticing of the table of contents to anticipate the storyline. Students silently read the first two pages of Chapter 1 to begin thinking about what is revealed through what characters say, do, and think. Students continue to note what in the text supports their ideas. Students read [...]
Guided Reading, Third Grade Session 2 with the informational text, Amazing Salamanders
This lesson begins with a discussion of strategies the readers used during the first session with the book. The students are encouraged to explain their thinking fully to the group by noting what in the text supports their thinking. Session 2 includes reading and discussing Chapters 2 & 3. Students work to integrate running text and photographs and other graphics to fully understand the key [...]
Guided Reading, Third Grade Session 3 Making Meaning with Informational Text AMAZING SALAMANDERS
Session 3 is very similar to Session 2, beginning with a discussion of strategies used during the first two sessions with the book. Students continue working to explain their thinking fully to the group by noting what in the text supports their thinking. Session 3 includes reading and discussing Chapter 4. Students continue to work to integrate running text and photographs and other graphics to [...]
Guided Reading, Third Grade Synthesizing—Talk about the pair, Amazing Salamanders & Salamander Surprise
The lesson offers students an opportunity to revisit, summarize, and extend their thinking about the key concepts of the two paired texts.
Guided Reading, Fifth Grade Session 1 with the informational text, Animals in Danger: Orangutans
The lesson begins with a review of reading strategies students have been using already in their work and the collaboration goal of noticing the thinking of others and integrating it into our own thinking. Students independently explore the text to introduce the book to themselves. After a short discussion of the table of contents, the students read and the introduction and Chapter 1, marking Very [...]
Guided Reading, Fifth Grade Session 2 with the informational text, Animals in Danger: Orangutans
Session 2 is similar to Session 1. Students read additional parts of the text independently away from the group, marking Very Important Points with sticky notes. During the lesson, students discuss the text, integrating information, making judgements about important parts of a text, and synthesizing information within and across the text.
Guided Reading, Fifth Grade Session 3 with the informational text, Animals in Danger: Orangutans
Session 3 extends the work begun in Sessions 1 & 2, as students continue integrating information, making judgements about important parts of a text, and synthesizing information within and across the text. Students begin to consider how their growing understandings and concerns from reading this text can impact personal decisions they make which in turn affect the lives of orangutans in the rainforests. [...]