Teaching Reading in Small Groups : Differentiated Instruction for Building Strategic, Independent Readers

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Pub. Date: 2010-01-26
Publisher(s): Heinemann Educational Books Ltd
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Summary

In Teaching Reading in Small Groups, Jennifer Serravallo extends the powerful teaching that made Conferring with Readers a hit and helps you meet instructional challenges effectively and efficiently.

Author Biography

Jennifer Serravallo came to New York City to develop her passion for urban education reform. While working on her masters at Teachers College, Columbia University, she taught in two Title I schools with swelling class sizes, high numbers of Ells, and an enormous range of learners. She's now a full-time staff developer and national consultant with the Teachers college Reading and Writing project, where she helps urban, suburban, and rural schools implement exceptional literacy instruction through reading and writing workshop. What she shares in Teaching Reading in Small Groups comes form the work in her classroom and from the classrooms where she consults.

Table of Contents

Recommendations for Reading and Returning to This Bookp. vi
Forewordp. ix
Acknowledgmentsp. xi
Beyond Reading Croups, Beyond Guided Readingp. 1
Small-Croup Instruction and The five Reading Tenetsp. 5
The Last Wordp. 14
Forming Croups: Making the Invisible Visible Through Assessmentp. 15
Some Principles of Assessmentp. 18
Assessing Engagementp. 20
Assessing Fluencyp. 31
Assessing Print Work Strategiesp. 38
Assessing Comprehensionp. 43
Assessing Conversationp. 61
Preplanned Groups Versus Impromptu Groupsp. 65
The Last Wordp. 66
Without Engagement We've Got Nothing: Helping Children Want to Readp. 67
The Urgency of the Engagement Problemp. 70
Mentoring Headers into Developing a Reading Identityp. 71
Talking Up Books in Groupsp. 79
Small Groups to Self-Monitor and Fix Up Disengagementp. 81
Self-Assigning Reading Goals for Purposeful Readingp. 85
Sign-Up Seminars to Energize Learnersp. 93
The Last Wordp. 95
Guided Practice Toward Independence: Strategy Lessons for Comprehension, Print Work, and Fluencyp. 97
Why Strategy Lessons?p. 98
Strategy Lessons at a Glance: Structurep. 99
Explicit Strategies, Effective Demonstrations, Just-Right Promptsp. 109
Releasing Scaffolding over Timep. 117
The Last Wordp. 120
Talking About Books: Improving Partnerships and Clubsp. 123
Supporting Book Cuba and Partnershipsp. 124
Differentiated Partnership Work: Kindergarten to Second Gradep. 125
Read-Aloud Book Clubs: First Grade and Upp. 131
Chapter Introduction* for Clubs: Second Grade and Upp. 135
Teaching During Partnership and Club Talkp. 146
The Last Wordp. 150
Reading with Fluency and Expression: Shared Reading, Warm-Up and Transfer Groups, and Performance Clubsp. 153
Shared Reading: Assessment-Based Support from Teachers and Peersp. 155
Warm-Up and Transfer Groupsp. 163
Performance Clubsp. 167
The Last Wordp. 171
Moving Readers to the Next Level; Text-Level Introduction Groupsp. 173
What Is Adequate Progress?p. 175
Getting to Know Leveled Booksp. 178
Getting to Know Your Readers Within a Levelp. 186
Ten-Level Introduction Groups: An Alternative to Guided Readingp. 189
The Last Wordp. 196
Organizing and Managing Small-Croup Conferring: Common Questionsp. 198
Reading Workshop Basicsp. 199
Visualizing the Roomp. 206
Keeping Trackp. 211
Scheduling Yourselfp. 216
The Last Wordp. 220
Referencesp. 221
Children's literaturep. 225
Indexp. 227
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