Teaching Kids to Read: Embracing Guided Reading in Primary School Classrooms

"A solid resource to help teachers understand the basic foundation for literacy development through guided reading in the primary grade." —Patti Ulshafer, first-grade teacher Develop successful readers with these strategies for before, during, and after reading. In Teaching Kids to Read, Gail Saunders-Smithdescribes the cognitive processes of emergent readers and provides educators with clear guidelines for promoting reading comprehension with small groups of young learners. A variety of exercises included helps children to locate, record, retrieve, and manipulate information from texts while enablingteachers to measure how students respond in oral, written, graphic, and three-dimensional forms. Topics covered include:

• Aliteracy
• Coaching statements
• Elements of craft
• False positive readers
• Fresh text
• Guided reading
• Instructional practice
• Metacognition
• Phonemic awareness
• Self-monitoring
• Shared reading
• Sight words
• Study skills
• Teacher talk
• Workable words
• and more!