Important and complex messages continue to be delivered in fewer and fewer words. How can you instill a love of reading while also helping improve students’ reading skills and comprehension in today’s varied world?
Research has shown that educators report significant gains in reading proficiency when deep reading instruction is well implemented. Guided Reading Shorts is a great tool to help your students become strategic and independent readers by developing their critical reading skills through short-form texts.
Guided Reading Short Reads—now in Nonfiction, Fiction, Spanish, and Digital—features short, complex texts full of relevant content that will inspire every learner. Ten developmentally appropriate short texts in each level build academic and domain-specific vocabulary, and in-depth lessons for every student card orchestrate purposeful repeated deep readings of each text.
Able to be completed in 20-minute sessions, this versatile collection can enhance and optimize your small group instruction by helping students interpret the meaning of what they’re reading through key strategies like purposeful rereading and self-questioning.
Guided Reading Short Reads programs feature:
- Short texts in multiple genres that support today’s diverse classrooms
- Relevant content to inspire every learner
- Ten developmentally appropriate short texts in each level that build academic and domain-specific vocabulary
- Teacher support including writing prompts that can be used to assess student comprehension in both English and Spanish
Short texts increase in complexity as students learn key decoding strategies and build proficiency as independent readers. Through each close reading, students demonstrate their comprehension through deep discussion and practicing speaking and listening skills. Robust academic and domain-specific vocabulary is woven into each text, with support in each accompanying lesson. Compelling informational text introduces critical content across science and social studies.
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