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Transitional Guided Reading PrintablesTransitional Guided Reading Printables
Publisher
Scholastic
Resource Details
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Grade
Pre-K - 4th
Subjects
English Language Arts
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Resource Types
Printables & Templates
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Audience
For Teacher Use
Duration
30 mins
Instructional Strategy
Guided Practice
Year
2009
Printables

Transitional Guided Reading

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Use a fill-in-the-blank lesson plan template to enhance your guided reading lesson plans with details surrounding decoding strategies, fluency and phrasing, vocabulary strategies, comprehension, and more! 

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Concepts

guided reading, future planning, teachers, reading

Additional Tags

english language arts

Instructional Ideas

  • Share the document at your next staff meeting or with your professional learning community (PLC)
  • Bookmark the link to the planning page for easy access when it is needed

Classroom Considerations

  • The lesson plan is designed to implement guided reading instruction over three days

Pros

  • Strategies are listed in a checklist format 
  • The document offers in-depth lesson information all on one page

Cons

  • Some strategies are represented by abbreviations, but details of the strategies' names are not provided 

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Printables

Next Step in Guided Reading

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Here are three guided reading lesson plan templates; each designed to meet the needs of a specific level of readers. Levels in focus are emergent, early, and transitional readers. Additionally, prompts to support your small group...
K - 2nd English Language Arts
CCSS: Adaptable
Lesson Plan

Preparing for Guided Reading

Frank Macias Elementary School
Take your guided reading lesson plans to the next level with a collection of printables, templates, and reference tools equipped to support the reading needs of your readers. Included is a detailed information page, grouping sheet,...
K - 5th English Language Arts
CCSS: Adaptable
Unit Plan

Frindle: A Guiding Reading Unit

Curated OER
Guide your class through a reading of the popular children's book, Frindle, with this comprehensive literature unit. Starting with a brief introduction to the guided reading process, the class goes on to read the story two chapters...
3rd - 5th English Language Arts
CCSS: Adaptable
Activity

Guided Reading Activities with Pizzazz

Lesson Plansos
Get the most out of your guided reading lessons with this collection of literacy materials. Offering a system for using color-coded tags to mark pages while reading books, as well as an assortment of comprehension and grammar...
1st - 4th English Language Arts
CCSS: Adaptable
Lesson Plan

Sample Guided Reading Lesson for Emergent Readers

Ontario
Give your guided reading lesson plan a boost with a sample lesson plan designed to reinforce academic content covered in previous assessments. The sample plan describes how the story and activities were chosen and offers the...
Pre-K - 1st English Language Arts
CCSS: Adaptable
Activity

Guided Reading: Beyond the Basics

Ideas From Suzi
Elevate children's reading comprehension skills with this collection of guided reading resources. From paper dice with basic comprehension questions printed on them to a system for using sticky notes to identify key...
1st - 5th English Language Arts
CCSS: Adaptable
Lesson Plan

Guided Reading with David's Drawings by Cathryn Falwell

Curated OER
First graders participate in a guided reading activity. In this guided reading activity, 1st graders read David's Drawings by Cathryn Falwell, which is a realistic fiction book on the DRA:16 level. They determine the author's message,...
1st English Language Arts
Lesson Plan

Guided Reading with Elizabeti's Doll

Curated OER
Practice reading strategies using Elizabeti's Doll by Stephanie Stuve-Bodeen. Readers utilize decoding and comprehension strategies before, during, and after reading the story. A detailed list of text features, high frequency words,...
K - 2nd English Language Arts
Lesson Plan

Guided Reading: Main Idea

Curated OER
Readers are presented with a list of three questions and asked to actively listen to a story or article to answer them. They verbally answer the questions to learn the strategy. Next, read a story to them or have them silently read a...
K - 4th English Language Arts
Lesson Plan

Guided Reading: Asking Questions

Curated OER
Here is a reading strategies lesson in which learners use post it notes to create a bulletin board. They post their new questions on the bulletin board and look back at questions they have already learned the answer to. A great idea,...
K - 2nd English Language Arts
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