Table of Contents
Recommendations for Reading and Returning to This Book vi
Foreword Lucy Calkins ix
Acknowledgments xi
1 Beyond Reading Croups, Beyond Guided Reading 1
Small-Croup Instruction and The five Reading Tenets 5
The Last Word 14
2 Forming Croups: Making the Invisible Visible Through Assessment 15
Some Principles of Assessment 18
Assessing Engagement 20
Assessing Fluency 31
Assessing Print Work Strategies 38
Assessing Comprehension 43
Assessing Conversation 61
Preplanned Groups Versus Impromptu Groups 65
The Last Word 66
3 Without Engagement We've Got Nothing: Helping Children Want to Read 67
The Urgency of the Engagement Problem 70
Mentoring Headers into Developing a Reading Identity 71
Talking Up Books in Groups 79
Small Groups to Self-Monitor and Fix Up Disengagement 81
Self-Assigning Reading Goals for Purposeful Reading 85
Sign-Up Seminars to Energize Learners 93
The Last Word 95
4 Guided Practice Toward Independence: Strategy Lessons for Comprehension, Print Work, and Fluency 97
Why Strategy Lessons? 98
Strategy Lessons at a Glance: Structure 99
Explicit Strategies, Effective Demonstrations, Just-Right Prompts 109
Releasing Scaffolding over Time 117
The Last Word 120
5 Talking About Books: Improving Partnerships and Clubs 123
Supporting Book Cuba and Partnerships 124
Differentiated Partnership Work: Kindergarten to Second Grade 125
Read-Aloud Book Clubs: First Grade and Up 131
Chapter Introduction* for Clubs: Second Grade and Up 135
Teaching During Partnership and Club Talk 146
The Last Word 150
6 Reading with Fluency and Expression: Shared Reading, Warm-Up and Transfer Groups, and Performance Clubs 153
Shared Reading: Assessment-Based Support from Teachers and Peers 155
Warm-Up and Transfer Groups 163
Performance Clubs 167
The Last Word 171
7 Moving Readers to the Next Level; Text-Level Introduction Groups 173
What Is Adequate Progress? 175
Getting to Know Leveled Books 178
Getting to Know Your Readers Within a Level 186
Ten-Level Introduction Groups: An Alternative to Guided Reading 189
The Last Word 196
8 Organizing and Managing Small-Croup Conferring: Common Questions 198
Reading Workshop Basics 199
Visualizing the Room 206
Keeping Track 211
Scheduling Yourself 216
The Last Word 220
References 221
Children's literature 225
Index 227
