Get organized to teach reading in small groups so you can work smarter – not harder.
Make reading in small groups easier with a reading strategy checklist. Here is a free checklist I’ve made for guided reading groups to communicate what I’m seeing with kindergarten parents. When reading with small groups, documenting what strategies students try is a great way to both informally assess and help guide your own planning. We teachers have…
I like working smart and one way I found to do that was by making sets of handy charts to use during guided groups. You can do this too – using your favorite materials! For my kindergarten classes – with a wide range of non-readers to second grade reading levels, that included working from the alphabet to learning…
Keeping your guided reading materials, lessons, observations, running records and such can be overwhelming for new teachers and more experienced teachers alike! My school, my first year of teaching was binder happy (I’m sure some of you can relate!) and so naturally I worked on a system to keep all of my materials in a binder….
Here’s an organization tip for storing guided reading materials! If you like to use games, workmats or re-usable activities for warm-ups or wrap-ups to your lesson time… this may help you grab what you need fast. I hope you find this quick storage tip easy to use and helpful! Guided Reading {Pain Free} Organization Store your…
Underneath my teacher space is where I have relocated my guided reading group materials. Right now the top shelf is designated for materials that we use on an everyday basis… …the types of things that I’d use with any and every group. Do these look familiar? I use pencil caddies to contain the items so that…
Literacy centers are a huge portion of our day. They allow me to teach guided reading to small groups of students and keep students learning and on task. Here is how I use a literacy center workboard, routine and transitions to make this portion of our day work smoothly. Literacy centers makes a big impression…
Anyone else feel like organizing never stops? Once you start organizing something, it spills over or borrows a container from something else which inevitably directs your organization destination to never-stops-ville. Okay, so I’m probably being dramatic, and I do love being (or at least feeling) organized, but sometimes I have to make myself stop because it can…