1. Small Group Reading Instruction
Mark Weakland

4. Give kids time to…
Read, read, read
Write, write, write

5. Extended time to read extended text on independent and instructional level

6. Extended time in extended text
10-15 continuous minutes (or more) of reading in books, web sites, magazines, etc.

7. Instructional level text is text that students can read with a certain degree of accuracy, rate and expression (fluency), and understand with a certain degree of comprehension, with support from a teacher.

8. Goals Understand how to form small groups based on data
List structures and routines that allow for small group instruction
Know what types of instruction occur within small groups

9. Information on individual abilities
Assessments ?

10. Instruction Information on individual abilities Assessments
Small group
Small group
Instruction

11. Assessments DRA Instruction Information on individual abilities DIBELS
Small group
Small group
Instruction

13. Small group work… …is enabled by independent work.
Independent reading activities
Independent writing activities

16. Extended text = classroom library

17. Fiction
Easy
Middle
Hard
Nonfiction

18. Talk It Up Tell why you love this book Give general overview
Show two specific points of interest

23. MONDAY
TUESDAY
WEDNESDAY
THURSDAY
FRIDAY
Small Group #1
15minutes

24. MONDAY
TUESDAY
WEDNESDAY
THURSDAY
FRIDAY
Small Group #1
15minutes
Small Group #2
20minutes

25. Phonemic awareness

26. PA: Segmentation / Manipulation

27. The Alphabetic Principle
Sounds are represented by letters
Encoding (spelling) and decoding (reading)

29. Fluency
Accurate reading, with an appropriate rate, and with appropriate expression and phrasing.

31. Vocabulary
Readers must know the meanings for most of the words in a text so they can understand what they read

32. Strategy use: using diagrams

33. For ex: 20-minute fluency lesson
Read from previous book (4)
Set goal (1)
Vocabulary direct instruction (2)
Students read / teacher guides (12)

34. Small group instruction: examples

35. Growth mind set Differentiation brings greater growth
Flexible groups enable differentiation
Formative assessment for tracking growth

36.
To give you a full understanding of why I’m interested in this concept of the bridge, I have to give you just a bit of my educational history