Introduction
welcome everyone thanks for taking time out of your day to to join us on our webinar on Thomson Pannell classroom
guided reading so just to give you a little bit of background on classroom before we jump right into guided reading
it is a high quality classroom based literacy instruction for everyday
literacy happening in the classroom and it's designed for pre-k through grade 6
and there are seven different instructional contexts so there's interactive read aloud you'll see the
little tiles on the bottom of the screen right now interactive read aloud reading mini lessons shared reading guided
reading independent reading phonics spelling and word study and book clubs and so what we're gonna do today is
we're going to focus on guided reading and during our time together we're gonna
look a little bit at what is guided reading and then spend some time looking
at what resources are part of the guided reading component in fountain Finnell classroom will explore guided reading in
the literacy continuum and how those two resources work together we'll also take
a peek at a sample lesson and during that time daniel will share a link with you where you can download the sample
lesson that I will be sharing but also sample lessons from other grade levels so of course for our time today I could
only choose one grade levels so you're welcome to search out other grade levels
that would be applicable to your your current role and then we'll spend some
time at the end doing some questions and answers but as Daniel mentioned if you have any questions that pop up as we go
through the webinar please feel free to post them in in the chat all right so let's get started
and dig right into guided reading so guided reading is a small group instruction and it's really designed so
that the teacher is providing that in the moment explicit instruction for students at where they're at in their
reading and really moving them forward now they are working with instructional
level text during that time so that's why there is some teacher support to scaffold the work
that they're doing in the learning so that there will be some challenge with the text but they'll also be able to
learn new things as a reader and have enough support from the teacher that they're able to efficiently make it
through the text students are reading the whole text so you'll notice in the
in guided reading in the fountain final classroom resources the texts are shorter and during the guided reading
lesson they'll be navigating through the whole text and you'll see that as we walk through a sample lesson and then
the whole idea is with when working with that small group is that you are being
really responsive to their needs as the learner so again we're listening in to students individually as they read in
that small group setting we're providing some teaching points some instruction for the student again to move them
forward in their reading and their processing of texts so just to kind of
Whats Included
give you a breakdown of what's included in the guided reading component there
are a few different pieces and what you'll see of course first is that there are over 1300 titles and you can see the
breakdown there by grade levels so in the lower grades there's 200 titles per grade level and these are unique titles
to fountas and pinnell classroom guided reading and they were created by obviously talented authors and
illustrators but under the direction of fountas and pinnell so you'll notice when you look at these texts that they
do match the text characteristics that's a fountas and pinnell have put together
that's aligned with their text level gradient and we'll talk a little bit more in detail in a few slides about
that but you'll notice that they're highly engaging and when you look at some of the samples that are available
on our website you'll be able to see the kinds of books that students will be interacting with and it's really about
developing them as readers writers and also to develop their language skills
and so within each title you actually get six copies of each book they are all in color there is a lesson folder you
will get a sample a sample of that in just a few minutes and be able to see what that looks like
so each title has its own lesson folder and that's actually the lesson card that goes with each title it's available when
you purchase it as print but you also get an access code to the digital resources and so you can also access it
digitally if you prefer that way there is a recording form for every title
that's part of found simple class room and you can access that again digitally on the online resources when you
purchase you get that access code and I
think I've already mentioned or note maybe I didn't mention this part but the collection guides so for each found two
Salmonella classroom grade-level resource there's a collection guide per grade level and it has some great
background information about guided reading in your classroom walks you through an annotated lesson and just
some of those key features within a guided reading so that's included and
then a handful of other online resources so as I mentioned the PDF of the lesson recording for more digital there's a
video library so you can watch some guided reading lessons in action and you also get a one-year free trial of the
online data management system and there
you go you can kind of just get a quick glance of what it actually looks like there is just one small sample of some
books you'll see the lesson folders are there with the books and they come in those containers and holders so that you
can organize them and store them up either in a classroom or in a book room
these can be shared among classroom teachers so if you order a certain grade
level you may be sharing it amongst a few different classrooms and again those are conversations that you can have back
at your school as to how you organize that and how you set that up I just
Levels
wanted to show you this quick visual to let you see the levels and how they are
organized from kindergarten to grade six in guided reading so what you'll notice
as I mentioned early is there are 50 titles per text level and you can see how they're just first
on the screen there so I'll just give you a moment to kind of take a peek at that again they are original text there
is about half of them per per grade or but half of them are fiction and about half are nonfiction they do have a
global focus and so there is content from different parts of the world and
the whole idea too is that we want students to gain those global perspectives and also build their
background knowledge as I mentioned before they're very appealing they're
series books there's two-way tax so again a variety of genres that are
included so lots of engaging titles for for students to read and be supported as
they make their way through guided reading lessons
Literacy Continuum
alright let's spend a few minutes kind of looking a little bit deeper at the continuum because the continuum is
really the the road map or the foundation for fountain Pannell classroom and I think it's important to
kind of talk about how this works really well with guided reading as well as you'll see the other instructional
contexts that are on your screen right now but in particular for today's session we're going to focus on guided
reading so of the eight continuum with them within the literacy continuum all
of them except guided reading are organized by grade levels so all the other ones are organized by grade level
and you get to guided reading it's actually organized and broken down by reading level a through Z and the
continuum is really at the center of everything we do from shared reading and writing about reading and of course
guided reading and it provides us with descriptions about what proficient
readers do and you know what they're describing them at those different
levels and of course those are the goals that we're aiming for and we want to move forward students in their learning
as they approach and move up the levels so this is a
great companion resource if you have benchmark assessment at your school you're probably familiar with the
literacy continuum because it comes inside the benchmark assessment system box you can also purchase it separately
but this is a great reference because you can dig into the literacy continuum
and start to make some specific decisions based on the students that you're working with and based on the
observations that you're making with those students and that can really guide next steps in learning now you will see
on the lesson folder that we explore today for guided reading that it does
reference goals out of the literacy continuum but the nice thing about actually having a continuum is that you
can dig a little bit deeper to see what are some of the other goals that are at that text level because like I said on
the lesson folder it's going to give you a sampling and it you may have to look beyond that for some of the students
you're working with to think about what would be most important for those learners because it's really about
making those precise decisions for those students that are sitting in front of you and with you as you navigate through
the text oh here on the screen is the
Text Level Gradient
text level gradient and you'll find this inside the literacy continuum so I refer to this a little bit earlier and many of
you are probably familiar with this and it uses letter levels and so these are
in tight and intended really to provide general guidelines so you may have different guidelines as you look at this
text gradient you may have come up with different guidelines within your school school school district and adjust them
accordingly and that's fine but I just wanted to make reference of this so as you see this text level gradient or
you're thinking about texts at different levels and text characteristics and features you just are able to think
about this visual and how everything aligns now also on here on the screen
now that just popped up is the 10th characteristics related to text difficulty so when you actually look
inside the guided reading section of the literacy continuum what you'll notice is
that they have very specific descriptions at each level around these
10 text characteristics and so when you look at a particular level it really
breaks down those ten characteristics of the types of language behaviors content
text structure illustrations those kinds of things and how they're specific to
text at those levels and so it'll give you the characteristics now again this
is just a general overview of text at
that particular level so it's really important to keep in mind that again we
can't you know individual texts may have different features in them but this is that general overview so I'm gonna click
on to the next slide here just so you can kind of get a sense of what it actually looks like inside a specific
level within the literacy continuum so here inside the literacy continuum
you'll see that it defines the types of behaviors that you may see at a
particular level and again this is generally true of readers at Level II so
the example we're looking at is in in that particular level is the type of reader they're describing and just kind
of to keep in mind that again these are general expectations so just remember
that obviously all readers and individuals are different but these are the types of things that we generally
see with readers at a level ii so this is laid out like this for every level
from a to Zed within the literacy continuum the nice thing about this is
it really gets us thinking about rather than putting a label of a letter on a
child because that's not the intention for those letters it's about it teachers
using it as a tool to make informed decisions about texts we select or how to support those readers so instead of
thinking of them as a certain level it's a great way to start making about them up the around these
different behaviors and characteristics that readers at Level II may exhibit I
mean this is what were our goals are this is what we're aiming for and so these are these gifts that this gives us
some characteristics to describe a reader at that level and what we might notice the other thing that it does is
so we've talked about the ten text characteristics now I just have a sample screenshot of six text characteristics I
don't have the other four shown on here but what you'll notice is now it's talking about those ten characteristics
specifically around level e text so what are some new genres that might be a
parent around level II what are some forms some text structure in particular
to the content or the language and literary features what might we notice in texts that earth at a level e any
questions about this and if you do please just type them in the chat
so within the literacy continuum as you flip the next page in you'll notice that
The Literacy Continuum
it's broken down into the system of strategic actions and thinking within
beyond and about the text and you'll see this evident in the lesson that we walk through how it connects it back to the
literacy continuum so that that's why I want to take a little bit of time just to make you familiar with how the continuum set up because it works as a
companion resource with the guided reading resources so within here each
level a through Z is set up so that it's
broken down into thinking within the text thinking beyond the text and
thinking about the text and what you'll see here is it it's those
characteristics that are part of the system of strategic actions that we want students to have a lot of proficiency in
as they work their way through text so these are some of the goals or
characteristics behaviors and understandings that we want to notice teach and support for students who are
working in a particular level and you'll notice here that anything that's thinking within the text anywhere in the
continuum is always shown by a blue circle or a blue bullet anything that is
identified as thinking beyond the text is always in green and it has a diamond
bullet in front of it and then anything that is thinking about the text is with
purple so if we go back to that system of strategic actions you'll see that
anything that has to do with critiquing and analyzing those behaviors to notice teach and support are going to be
referenced in purple with a purple square now it's important to think about
that all students are going to engage in this system of strategic actions readers at all levels but it's going to look
different at each of the levels and so that's why the literacy continuum is an important companion resource that we can
start to think about how do students at level B think about the text and engage in those
system of strategic actions at that level and then what about students who are reading more complex texts at level
M what does thinking about the text look like at that level so it really breaks
it down for us so we can get a good sense of how we can be precise and intentional in our teaching and move
those students forward in their learning and the other thing that it does is it provides that consistent language among
teachers among classrooms among schools school districts so we're all teaching
with intention and purpose but also using that consistent vocabulary with
students as we talk about texts and write about text and engage in different texts so that's the nice thing it builds
that coherence among classrooms and ultimately that's at the benefit for for
the students all right so that gives you
a little bit of background on the continuum so if you haven't looked at that resource I encourage you to take a
peek at it there's some sample chapters online that you can download through our
website you can request a digital sampler and look at it that way but you can also if you have benchmark
assessment in your school and in your building you can take it out of the box there and explore it a little bit
further so Before we jump into the sample lesson I just wanted to highlight
this visual because you'll see at the top here that interactive read aloud is the foundation on which you know
everything's built right so there's a high level of teacher support an interactive read aloud were you know
modeling for students how they engage with those system of strategic actions and the whole idea is that we want to
build their shared literacy knowledge and so as we do that we also work in we
do those things whole group and you'll see other things on there like reading mini lessons and shared reading and so on but we also have opportunities to
work with students in small group settings and that's where guided reading comes in so as I mentioned at the top of
the webinar that's our opportunity to work in the moment work with those small
groups of students be really intentional and make those moment to moment decisions that's really going to guide
them through those texts at their instructional level and in order to do that we obviously need students working
independently so that we've got some time to pull those small group of students so you'll see on the slide here
that during guided reading students are often engaged in independent work and there could be could be literacy centers
it could be a workshop model that you have set up in your classroom and again
that gives us the time where we can pull those small groups and work together with them on instructional level text
there is also if you're looking for more information about the management piece
of that independent work I'll share a resource at the end with you
found some Pinal have out that really does a great job of talking about the
design of guided reading and setting up guided reading in your classroom so stay tuned for that and I'll I'll share that
with you towards the end of our webinar together um one of the things you'll also notice on the slide before I click
off of it and on to our sample lesson is that you'll see an orange dot referenced in many of the instructional contacts
this is just to let you know that these are instructional contexts where word
study is taking place as well so in the guided reading portion you'll notice in
the continuum as well as on the lesson folders there are there is some ideas
that you can use to implement some word study in that last couple of minutes during your guided reading time together
and you'll get to see a sample of what that looks like as we move through the lesson together so let's dive in and
Lesson Folder
take a look at what that lesson folder actually looks like for today's webinar
I've actually pulled a grade for lesson and on here on the screen I know you
can't read this part I I just put this on here so I could highlight some of the key components that are in each of the
lessons that are available in the lesson folders Daniel's gonna post a link for you in the chat and that will get you to
the samplers for not only in grade 4 but also for the other grades that you can take a peek at so that will be helpful
for you to see that but I'm gonna highlight some of the key features so obviously you'll see at the start there
a story at the top of the page just below the grade 4 signage there there's
obviously the materials that you're going to need and so obviously one of them is the book if there's any online resources its reference there as I
mentioned the recording forms the reading records for each title or on the online resources and then it's going to
reference the book it's going to give you the level the author the illustrator the genre if it's in the series it will
let you know that and then of course it's always going to some nail of what the book looks like from there so we
DJ Focus
rock today gonna look at DJ focus that's going to be the book that is part of
this lesson that we're going to explore and I'll show you some sample pages of just what that looks like
so in here you'll see this is DJ focus and inside this lesson this is about a
boy from Sierra Leone in West Africa and he is kind of talks about himself as
it's a biography and he talks about himself as an as an engineer he's always into looking and discovering new and
making new things and so within this book that's exactly what he does he sets
up a radio station and you'll see some of the text features that are part of
this book so you'll notice that I'm just
gonna click through some of these slides fairly quickly again this is a grade for level T text
you so that just gives you an idea of some
of the pages I don't have all of them included in there but it just gives you a sense of the book now inside of this
book there's the goals linked to the continuum so the whole idea here is that
coherence connection again we want to you know pull some of those goals that would align with this text in particular
and select some goals and you're gonna think about from these schools what might be important ones to match the
students that you're working with and what might be appropriate so there's just a sampling of them there again you
can always go back into literacy continuum and explore the other goals that are at that level the other thing
that's on here is it provides of the analysis of the book characteristics so
in here it'll give you a little summary there too it's say how the book works so it tells you it's a biography of Calvin
doe and through this he overcomes obstacles as I mentioned earlier to
create his own radio station and broadcasting his community in Sierra Leone now you'll see because this is a
level T text it breaks it down into those ten text characteristics that are
specific to this book so in the continuum it'll talk about
characteristics that are in general two level T text but for each book they've
actually done that analysis of the book characteristics so it's a really great way to explore what's on there and see
and think about what characteristics might be new first the students you're working with what characteristics may
pose a challenge for some of the students that you're working with so it's a great overview to provide that
information because of course that's going to guide some of the support you provide to this students and the
instruction that you provides that they're able to read this book with proficiency so after you know you've
Text Introduction
familiarized yourself with the goals and the text characteristics then it jumps right into the lesson and introducing
the text so in this sex section of the lesson there is a
any suggestions of how you may introduce the text and engage readers in the text
you'll also notice that some of them have a circle bullet that that's just to
make you aware that there are those are opportunities for students to respond and be part of that text introduction so
the whole idea here is we want to talk with students and get them thinking
about the types of or the text that they're about to read and engage them in
that text so again many suggestions here you as the teacher can choose what you think is going to be most appropriate
for the group that you're working with at that time all right the next part
then is that we're gonna get the students actually reading the text and so during this point we're gonna be
listening in and prompting and interacting with the students as they read and you may lean in closer to one
student and then provide some possible we're sorry there's some suggestions
there of possible things that you're gonna you know look for or listen for as the students reading and you may prompt
them there is an icon on the left there of the prompting guide and I'll get to that in just a minute but it's
referenced on many of the pages and in the margins throughout each lesson the
Text Supports
other thing that you'll notice and I know you can't read this I'm gonna zoom in on it for you is that there is
supports built-in for English learners and these supports are built-in in
various parts throughout the lesson so that we can support English learners in processing text and scaffolding
instructions so that again they're able to read this text with proficiency and
you're gonna see these change their book specific and they're gonna change and
there's gonna be different types of supports built in as you navigate through the lesson so here on your
screen you'll see as you introduce the text their supports built in and then as the students are reading there's
different supports built in
all right on to the next part all right
so as the students finish up their reading you're gonna discuss and revisit the text and so during that time what you'll
notice here is it it's color coded and broken down to that system of strategic
actions so again going back to that some of strategic actions wheel that we that
I referenced earlier this is some
actions that readers might employ while they're actually processing and making
their way through the tax so here's some things that you can think about and you
know maybe prompt students for if you as tax if you don't see these things evident so it gives you lots of
suggestions there again what you'll notice here is we want to obviously
encourage discussion but you'll notice that these supports are book specific so
these ones here are to do with the actual book that the lesson folder is
for so that's nice because again we have that information right at our fingertips and it really helps us in guiding the
discussion around the book as we revisit it with students and discuss what they they learned and what they read about
and what they noticed inside of that book so this is a chance for the students to share their thinking the
other thing that's also listed here is the messages so again we want students
to get the sense of the main message or the big idea so that's always
highlighted there for you the teacher again specific to the book that you're that's for that lesson and then the
other thing it does is it shares some teaching points so this gives you an opportunity to respond to individual
students after the reading based on what you're noticing so again these are suggestions you're going to listen in
and observe the students and then you may use some of these teaching points to
further support them in their thinking about the text
and then the prompting guide which I referenced earlier is always referenced
inside the margin of the text the lesson folder and oftentimes the reference
prompting guide one and two and so you can if you have leveled literacy
intervention in your school you likely have these resources found in box one of leveled literacy intervention you may
have purchased them separately but in here there's facilitative language provided so that we can teach prompt or
reinforce behaviors and understandings for students so again it provides that
facilitative language so if we're trying to get students to monitor their reading or for solving words we can explore the
language that is part of our the prompting guide to either teach for prompt for or reinforce those reading
behaviors and then from there on the
Word Work
next part of the lessons or the fourth page and the final page of the lesson there's word work so remember I talked
to you earlier that within the literacy continuum they reference word work principles that would be appropriate at
the different levels of text well now they have built in for this particular lesson a few minutes where you can spend
some time doing a word work lesson so here the students are looking at multi-syllable words there's always a
visual provided so that you can see what the lesson could look like or how it
could unfold and some of the responses from students so that's nice because you've got that image always supporting
you there I don't think I have it zoomed in on this part but you'll notice in the margin and really small print on the
slide that there again they're supports for English language learners as you navigate through this portion of the
lesson and then the next part is the writing about reading now this is an
optional piece and you can choose you may do this with some books you may not
do it with all of the books and that's okay too but gives you that option in case you want
students to write about the text that they read and share their thinking again there's a visual of what that could look
like and what responses could be and here these students in grade four they're actually doing some shared
writing in a two column chart and then
the final piece on there is the assessment and so this again is linked
to goals and literacy continuum and it references or is linked to the first
page of the lesson folder and the goals that are listed on there which I showed
you right at the beginning of the sample lesson and then you can always download the reading record and use that to
assess students you know possibly the following day you may choose one student to assess and do a quick check-in just
to see how they're doing with that level of text and again to use that information to guide in and form your
teaching with those students or with that student here's the sample of what
the reading record form looks like I didn't include all of the pages but you'll get a sense of the way it's laid
out if you're familiar with benchmark assessment or level literacy intervention these forms will look
familiar to you alright so that has
Summary
given you a hopefully a good sense of what the lessons looks look like inside
of the guided reading instructional context I just wanted to put this visual
up on here before we kind of start to wrap things up just to kind of get you thinking about going back to that level
of support that we're providing inside of guided reading so obviously in shared reading there's a high level of teacher
support an inside guided reading there's a lower level than shared reading but
still a moderate amount of support provided so that students can process that text individually so obviously in
shared reading where we're doing stuff more as a whole group in guided reading they are reading that text individually
with that teacher support so again it's going to be at their instructional level so it's going to provide a bit of a challenge for them
and of course what we want to do is make sure that everything that we're doing and providing that support with
ultimately is leading to independent reading and processing texts proficiently with minimal support inside
of independent reading so those skills and those behaviors and understandings
that we're supporting inside of shared reading and inside of guided reading students are now applying to their
independent reading if this figure as
well as that resource I talked about before so this image comes from the
guided reading resource guided it's called guided reading responsive teaching across the grades so this
resource is really foundational and uncovers the power and purpose of guided
reading it's got a lot of great information in it and really talks about
responsive teaching as well and building that community of learners in our classroom as well as how to you know
create a sense of independence when you're setting up individual literacy time so that you can pull small groups
of students it's got a couple chapters for the primary grades and a one chapter for the primary grades and a chapter on
what that might look like with intermediate and middle school students so definitely lots of great information
inside that resource that you may want to take a further look at and again you can explore that on our website other
than that if there's any questions you can post them in the chat pod I think
our time together is almost over but it does leave a few minutes for questions as you're thinking about questions that
you have I do want to highlight some of the other instructional context webinars
that we're offering so there is a repeat of this one on March 25th but we'll also
be exploring shared reading in the next few weeks as well as phonics spelling and word study and in interactive read
aloud so if you register for any of those and and you can't make it
Smit that's okay too because you will still receive the recording of the webinar that you can revisit later if
you do want to request a hard copy sampler you can get a hold of your sales rep and I'll put their contact info up
in just a minute you can also book an appointment and we would be happy to have someone come visit your school and
share some of the instructional context or if there's a particular one that you're looking at inside fountain Pannell classroom they would be happy to
bring some samples and show you what that looks like we do have some early adopter options available but I do
encourage you if you haven't already done so to join the fountain Pannell literacy community it's free you can
just go to found some Pannell comm there's lots of great webinars on their daily lipid study guides if your
consultant leading teachers and staff through the continuum there's lots of
support on there for things that you might do to lead that so please if you
haven't already done so think about signing up for the fountain Pinal literacy community I have put a the
Pearson website on there so Pearson Canada GA / FPC which has all of the
information around found some fennel classroom on our website so please feel free to visit that and if you do want to
contact your sales rep in your area their contact information is up on the screen now if you work at the district
level as a consultant or an another position at the district level you can reach out to the sales rep
that's in your area on the screen and they'll connect you to the Account Executive in your territory and again
they would be happy to connect with you or come meet with you and bring you some samples of fountains no classroom if
there are no questions thanks again for your time hopefully you were able to get
a deeper understanding of the instructional context of guided reading enjoy your evening and I think that's it
for now so I'll mute my microphone and just wait to see if you have any questions pop up