The Next Step in Guided Reading: Focused Assessments and Targeted Lessons for Helping Every Student Become a Better Reader

by Jan Richardson

Overview

Teachers facing the challenge of meeting the diverse reading needs of students will find the structure and tools they need in Jan Richardson's powerful approach to guided reading. Richardson has identified the essential components of an effective guided reading lesson: targeted assessments, data analysis that pinpoints specific strategies students need, and the use of guided writing to support the reading process. Best of all, Richardson provides detailed lessons for readers at all grade levels and at all reading stages from emergent through proficient. For use with Grades K-8.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780545133616
Publisher:	Scholastic, Inc.
Publication date:	06/01/2009
Pages:	288
Product dimensions:	8.30(w) x 10.80(h) x 0.50(d)
Age Range:	5 - 13 Years

About the Author

Jan Richardson, Ph.D., is an educational consultant who travels throughout the United States training teachers and doing classroom demonstrations on guided reading. A former classroom teacher (she has taught in every grade, K-12), reading specialist, Reading RecoveryÆ teacher leader, and staff developer, Richardson is well-known for her hands-on, engaging presentations. Her passion is motivating, engaging, and accelerating all readers from emergent to fluent. Jan and her husband, Cecil, have seven sons-three wonderful and four “grand”!