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cauffeepot
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Dear fans
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I �ve eaten a whole bag of candy and I feel sick now. Besides that unpleasantness, in one week! I �m going to teach grade 2. I need advice, please! How do I make Guided Reading groups? What do I do in the first week? |
29 Aug 2010
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Vickiii
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What a fun question.
First week do a �ME � unit. Play name games where the children use each others names alot
eg - pass the ball around a circle saying the person name you are going to pass too. then time it and get them to do in the same order but faster and faster and faster...
Do name art
eg - write their name then mirror image it and make names into bugs to put on wall.
write name in word art and put a picture as the fill showing their favourite hobby.
Do a passport - I have one under my name to give ideas - will need to make it easier for little-ees.
Guided Reading
Set up 3- 5 activities that children can do independently
- puzzles
- alphabet match games
- computer spelling games
- handwriting fun activities
- board games - I use bogglesworld ones like cvc games as well as bought ones and my own design. All games should be teaching spelling rules or sight words.
- sightword fish and other games.
Have the children go round the activity stations - change every 15 min for that age. While they are doing the independent activities you take reading groups based on reading level.
Use a scrapbook (Helping or Learning Book) for each group.
Write the title of the book and what the children are learning to do.
Emergent readers - learning a sight word or punctuation or sounding out words or grammar
Fluent readers - comprehension strategies like I am learning to find facts or put fact into my own words.
Read the book with the kids - asking a question per page for fluent readers to find the answer to (based on your learning intention).
Set them off with an activity that repeats the learning intention - eg I am learning to put facts into my own words - get the kids to draw a picture of one of the animals in the book and add a fact to the picture.
Hope this helps
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29 Aug 2010
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presto2
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Hey there, Dont be scared they are harmless! Guided reading groups are made according to reading levels. Simply determine the childrens reading levels and bunch them into the number of groups you have...I have 5 groups at present. The groups may have a range of levels for example levels 13,14,15 and I teach to the middle/lower end. Hope that helps!! Nic |
29 Aug 2010
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Jayho
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It �s good advice presto2 but I think the students would be scared if they knew what our dear cauffeepot got up to in this forum in her many moments of boredom  |
29 Aug 2010
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lovemykids
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Me too... can you answer that cauffee??? I �m intrigued now...
...I can �t believe you are making a question related to teaching!... Of course your comments regarding your anxiety or in other words, your crave for eating can �t be left aside.... 
BTW I think our colleagues � ideas are just great and they are very useful as usual.
take care |
29 Aug 2010
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cauffeepot
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I �m a woman but if it bothers you, I �m a man. Now on to important matters. It �s not the kids I �m scared of. I �ve heard repeatedly that the parents have their long noses and their sticky fingers in classroom business. I love the Me unit-I will definitely try that. But being new to the school I don �t havr reading levels. Do I just pick a book at random and do a running record on it? So many things to learn! |
30 Aug 2010
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