GUIDED READING

I keep all the Guided Reading supplies in this area, located next to my teaching table. The 7-drawer cart is from Wal-Mart. It was $19.97. The gray hardware drawer containers are from Wal-Mart. Each was less than $10.00.

The top three drawers house miscellaneous teaching supplies such as magnetic white boards, expo markers, an eraser, magnetic cake tins, highlighters, highlighter tape, and cut-apart sentence supplies (glue, sentence strip paper, scissors). We have our reading strategies student posters (to help us remember what strategies we can use when we come to a tricky part or word. We also have our ABC chart, for the low level group for a shared reading experience. The bottom four drawers are used by each of the four reading groups. One drawer per reading group. I house the week's reading books in there along with their reading response notebooks.

This index card box (5x7) is where I store my GR lesson plans. I print them, trim them down, and then laminate. At the start of each day, I gather all the needed materials for each group, and make sure each group's drawer is ready to go! The lesson plans are NOT available for download. You can see a sampling of the lessons in the link listed below.

Our school has a large book room. It houses our leveled Guided Reading books. There are generally 6 (sometimes more) copies a book for each title. The books are ordered from various publishers/vendors: