Guided+Reading+Materials

=Materials to Keep Handy at your K-2 Guided Reading Groups = = = =(These are only examples and suggestions) = = = There are many resources out there to use in your guided reading groups. I have included a few of my favorites that I've learned about over the years. Other materials that you may want to keep handy (which I haven't included in pictures) are:

Post-it notes Clipboards 3-ring binder with lesson plans for each group Wikki-Stix [|www.wikkistix.com] Play Microphones [] Fun Pointer Fingers [] Various Pointers [] Word Whackers []

** Just remember...you don't have to "buy" a lot of resources to teach guided reading. These are materials that I have picked up over the last 15 years of teaching. Many of these resources can be made or found on the internet. With the plethora of teaching blogs and educational resources online, you can find so many ideas right at your fingertips and they are free!! You would be surprised, I'm sure many of you have a lot of fantastic resources already that you could use in your guided reading groups. Relax, breathe and take it a step at a time!! You won't regret it...the growth that you will witness in your students will be worth the effort that you put into it!! Good luck!!! **

2. __White board and Markers__- This is always good to keep handy whether you are showing how to decode a word, introducing unknown vocabulary or teaching a new reading strategy.
==3. __Stickers, trinkets, candy__- Whatever motivates your children...keep them on hand. My students have sticker charts that they work towards filling up and earning various rewards. Reading group behavior and participation earn them stickers each day.==

5. __Pencils, Pens, Colored Pencils, crayons__- always good to keep on hand in case you are asking the children to write in response to their reading.
==6. __Helper Bookmarks__- I purchased mine from [|www.reallygoodstuff.com]. I have bookmarks with Reading Strategies, bookmarks with the different reading genres and bookmarks for how to choose a "just right" books.==

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==9. __Reading Skills activity book-__ This is a book that I found at Teacher's Pet in Morehead City. It gives some quick, simple reading activities that you could use at the start or finish of the lesson.==

11. __Reading Response Journals__
==12. __Guided Reading Coaching Tool-__ This is an excellent tool that gives you pointers on how to coach children on improving fluency, using picture clues, directionality, decoding, etc. I purchased this from:==

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==14. __Orange Fiction Box-__ This explores the different fiction genres and has accompanying questions and activities that target certain skills to be learned. I will utilize these when we are exploring different text genres. I purchased these here:==

==24. Don't forget to keep Phonics Phones on hand. This enables students to hear themselves read without everyone else in the group hearing them. I purchased these at Lowe's. They are PVC pipe elbows (much less expensive than the commercialized ones ;))==