Successful small group reading sessions lift learning and empower greater achievement in literacy. This session will focus on:

• Umbrella concepts that guide my practices:
  • Cambourne’s Conditions of Learning
  • Gradual Release of Responsibility Model
• Description of guided reading/small group strategy sessions and how it fits into a comprehensive literacy program
• Environment and management issues
• Key elements of small group strategy sessions/ guided reading
• Assessment prior to and during small group reading sessions
• Looking at texts (both nonfiction and fiction) for small group sessions
• Differentiating Instruction: Focusing on “Tangled Readers”