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 following sections; before reading, pre-reading, introducing the text, during reading, after reading, and after-reading activities; all of which produce a detailed plan for easy implementation. 

Concepts

guided reading, glasses, disabilities, emergent reading, making predictions, picture walks, reading strategies, reading stories

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Additional Tags

english language arts

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Instructional Ideas

• Create a themed bulletin board with pictures reflecting the topic of the book you choose
• Assign different books based on the needs of your guided reading groups
• Share the sample reading lesson plan with fellow teachers at a staff meeting or professional learning community (PLC)

Classroom Considerations

• Modify the lesson with another story of similar topic and reading level

Pros

• The lesson provides a rationale, lesson steps, and possible challenges regarding the book they chose; looking at similar aspects of your classroom, this example can assist in the choice of book you make for your reading group
• General reflection questions are offered to both teachers and learners'

Cons

• The story Glasses by Francis Lee is not available

Common Core

RL.K.3 RL.K.4 RL.K.7 RL.1.3 RL.1.4 RL.1.7 RF.K.3.a RF.1.3.a