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Lesson 5.4: Planning and Teaching a Small Group Guided Reading Lesson

Focus: Understand how to plan and teach small group guided reading lessons, including how to provide book introductions in order to connect with the students’ prior knowledge, further develop oral language, introduce new concepts and vocabulary, and provide direct instruction in decoding.

Prior to the Collaboration Group Meeting

1. Reflection Journal

Write in your reflection journal prior to the Collaboration Group meeting. You are to respond weekly in your journal, reflecting on your learning, observation, questions, and personal connections. Your reflections need to be at least 250 words. You may choose how to format your journal, though you may want to consider the following as you write:

    • What are some new understandings you made this week as a result of the work for this lesson and your work with your students?
    • How has this new understanding influenced your current practice?

Bring your reflection journal to the weekly Collaboration Group meeting, and prepare to share your entries.

2. Reading

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  1. Read Guidelines for Planning and Teaching a Guided Reading Lesson for Beginning Readers.
  2. Read Sample Guided Reading Lesson Plan.
  3. Read Guided Reading Lesson Plan for Beginning Readers.
  4. Read Debriefing the Guided Reading Lesson.
  5. Read Continuum of Reading Behaviors.
  6. Read Learning About Words.
  7. Read Strategy Prompts.

3. Classroom Application

During the Collaboration Group Meeting

  1. The facilitator leads the Collaboration Group in:

  2. Determine the facilitator, recorder, timekeeper, date, time, and location for the next Collaboration Group meeting.

After the Collaboration Group Meeting

  1. Email the Guided Reading Lesson Plan for Beginning Readers and Debriefing the Guided Reading Lesson to the instructor. Send your assignment(s) to the instructor as an attachment to an email message. Be sure to include your name, date, location, and title on the document. Also, include your name and lesson title in the file name, for example, moses_guided_reading_plan and moses_debriefing_lesson.
  2. The recorder emails the Collaboration Group notes to the instructor and places copies of all work done by the Collaboration Group in the Collaboration Group Notebook for future reference.
  3. The timekeeper emails the attendance to the instructor.