Preventing Misguided Reading: Next Generation Guided Reading Strategies

Feeling exhausted after guided reading? Are you working tirelessly while your students arent even breaking a sweat? Do you ever wonder if other teachers feels the same way you do about guided readingthat its not working the way you think it should? You are not alone. There seems to be much confusion surrounding guided readingthe term even means something different from school to school.
Now you can turn to the 50 years of collective experience of authors Jan Burkins and Melody Croft to prevent guided reading from going astray in your classroom.

Jan and Melody present personal clarifications, adaptations, and supports that have helped them work through their own tricky parts as they guide readers. The books six chapters each clarify a misunderstanding about guided reading instruction in the following areas:

• The teachers role and the gradual release of responsibility
• Instructional reading level
• Text gradients
• Balanced instruction
• Integrated processing
• Assessment