Preventing Misguided Reading

New Strategies for Guided Reading Teachers

 

About the Authors

Foreword
Michael F. Opitz and Michael P. Ford

Preface
The Tricky Parts

Acknowledgments

Introduction
A Simple Model of the Reading Process

Chapter 1
Reframing the Gradual Release of Responsibility

• Strategy #1: Connect Literacy Instruction Across Instructional Contexts

• Strategy #2: Describe Guided Reading as a Session Rather Than a Lesson

• Strategy #3: Establish Routines That Require Students to Assume Control

• Strategy #4: Teach Students in Guided Reading Groups Only When It Meets Individual Needs

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Chapter 2
Revisiting Instructional Reading Level
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• Strategy #5: Teach Students From Books in Which They Can Practice a Balanced Reading Process

• Strategy #6: Increase Your Sensitivity to Reader Distress

• Strategy #7: Select Guided Reading Texts Based on Student Reading Processes

• Strategy #8: Clarify Confusions When Problem-Solving Efforts Prove Unproductive

Chapter 3
Reconsidering Text Gradients

• Strategy #9: View Students' Reading Levels as a Range or Cluster

• Strategy #10: Employ Flexible Grouping

• Strategy #11: Engage Independent Students in Tasks With Scope

• Strategy #12: Use Controlled Vocabulary Texts Judiciously

• Strategy #13: Linger at Level E

• Strategy #14: Practice Mindful Language

Chapter 4
Realigning With Balanced Instruction

• Strategy #15: Engage All Students, Regardless of Instructional Reading Level, in Thinking Deeply About Story

• Strategy #16: Teach Students to Look Closely at Print, but Not at the Expense of Story

• Strategy #17: Encourage Students to Talk About Their Thinking, but Not Too Much

Chapter 5
Recommitting to Integrated Processing

• Strategy #18: Teach Students to Notice the Ways a Text Supports Itself

• Strategy #19: Prompt Less and, When You Do, Prompt Toward Integration

• Strategy #20: Consider the Efficacy of Each Student's Self-Correcting Behaviors

• Strategy #21: Help Students Break Inefficient Reading Habits

• Strategy #22: Provide Massive Practice

Chapter 6
Redesigning Literacy Assessment

• Strategy #23: Move Beyond the All-or-None Systems

• Strategy #24: Analyze Comprehension Holistically

• Strategy #25: Use Fluency to Help Determine Instructional Reading Level

• Strategy #26: Consider the Ways Students Integrate Cues

• Strategy #27: Look at Shifts in Students' Reading Processes Across Texts

Epilogue

Appendix
Reproducibles

References

Index

 

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