This books shows how to plan appropriate lessons and literature-extension activities for emerging, developing, and independent readers while helping them develop an appreciation for literature. Skills include: capitalization; character development; phonics; main idea; point of view; drawing conclusions; and more.

Making the Connection, Grades K-2

Education & Teaching

Pavelka, Patricia

Schools & Teaching

Stenhouse Publishers

This user-friendly book includes techniques to advance comprehension and vocabulary development, methods for using any book to teach specific skills, ways to accommodate different abilities, and children`s book bibliographies based on various ability levels. (Grades 3-6)

Making the Connection, Grades 3-6

This is a practical, use in your classroom tomorrow, guide to help students independently ponder and ask good, thought provoking questions before, during, and after reading. This book contains specific prompts for the six question words: who, what, where, when, why, and how. It also contains nonfiction prompts. Specific ideas and activities for using the question prompts are explained. All the activities are hands-on, take it back to your seat materials for students to use. There are photos, pictures, and samples of students’ work. You will see the transfer of strategies from whole and small groups with the teacher to the independent application by students during reading and assignment times.

Question Prompts: Taking Comprehension to a Higher Level

Husky Trail Press, LLC

Differentiating in the Whole-Group Setting: Taking the Easy First Steps into Differentiation, Grades 1-4
 Pat Pavelka
 Here's a wealth of activities and strategies to use across the curriculum, with a wide-range of learners within the whole-group setting. Includes techniques for engaging all learners, quick and effective ongoing assessments, follow-up assignments that allow for student choice, ways to use flexible grouping, and activities to stimulate higher-level thinking. (1-4) 160 pp.

Differentiating Instruction In A Whole-Group Setting Gr 1-4

Crystal Springs Books

This book is a comprehensive guide showing educators how to organize and manage their classroom guided reading instruction so students are equipped with the tools needed to be successful in working independently. Teachers are given a practical structure that will enable them to manage four to five guided reading groups. This resource is filled with a wealth of specific, easy-to-implement structures, strategies, ideas, and activities to put all of the components of managing guided reading together successfully. This book is divided into four parts. Part 1 shows very specific ways to organize and schedule guided reading groups. There are a variety of different schedules from which to choose depending upon a teacher’s specific classroom needs. Part 2 gives assignments and activities that students can be working with while the teacher is instructing a guided reading group. These multi-leveled assignments are presented in a way that shows how they can be utilized as learning centers or as independent seat work. The suggested assignments can also be coordinated with the curriculum and books. Part 3 shows how to get started step-by-step. There is a schedule for the first four weeks of implementing the ideas, activities, and strategies in this book. Part 4 provides reproducibles of activities as well as a bibliography.

Guided Reading Management: Structure and Organization for the Classroom