The Next Step in Guided Reading by Jan Richardson

Richardson has step by step directions of how to include interactive writing during the guided writing portion of a Pre-A lesson on page 70. as they construct a text by sharing the pen. Interactive writing allows children to work alongside a more knowledgeable other. they learn that what they can say, they can write and what they can write they can read! Part four of the Pre-A lesson is all about interactive writing. Reading and writing are reciprocal processes and when students learn to do both at the same time they learn how to make links between the two. Richardson emphasizes the importance of including writing. Throughout the Next Step in Guided Reading book, Dr. the faster they can move to the emergent lesson format that Julie explains.Ĭlick on the picture to grab my Letter Tracing Book the faster they gain more letter and sound knowledge. Do not waste to much time on what is already known. if they can already do an activity without your support than choose something else in order to build upon their knowledge. You will choose one activity from the list on pages 67-68 but be mindful of what students can do with ease. Students will also learn to associate sounds with a letter name. The purpose of the the working with sounds component is to teach the three aspects of phonological awareness: hearing syllables, hearing rhyming sounds, and hearing initial consonant sounds. On page 66 you will find explicit letter formation language (I have included this language in a chart in my letter/sound charts product listed below). Students will also spend 1-2 minutes working on the letter formation of one to two letters per day. The Pre-A lesson was designed to improve visual memory, phonemic awareness, oral language and concepts about print.

however, in a Pre-A lesson, students are grouped according to their letter and letter sound knowledge. A traditional GR group is formed according to text reading level and skills needed.

A traditional GR lesson has 3-6 students in them however, in a Pre-A lesson you do not want to have more than 4 students at the GR table. Jan Richardson states that The Pre-A GR Lesson is for children that are not yet ready for a traditional GR lesson because they know fewer than 40 upper and lowercase letters and hear few, if any sounds. You can grab the lesson forms for both of these lessons by clicking here. I will focus on the Pre-A Guided Reading Lesson and Julie will focus on the Emergent Guided Reading Lesson. This chapter explains two lesson formats. Emergent readers are typically in Kindergarten and first grade but may also be in upper grades if they are ELL students or students that have special learning needs. Chapter THREE is all about emergent readers (level A through level C).

The Next Step in Guided Reading by Jan Richardson