Which Book and Why is the definitive guide for teachers trying toachieve effective guided reading for children aged 4-7. It explainshow guided reading fits with current theoretical understandingof how children learn and has supporting online resources.
Which Book and Why is the definitive guide for
teachers trying to achieve effective guided reading for children
aged 4-7.
This new edition is a vital resource helps teachers to choose
the right book at the right time for young readers
based on focused assessments and explains how guided reading fits
with current theoretical understanding of how children learn.
This New Edition has had an overall update of
content, including the searchable databases in the supporting online
resource, and includes a new section that explores how to provide
the rest of the class with meaningful literacy activities while
the teacher is focusing on a particular guided reading group.
Each part - and, in the case of Part 2, each unit - of the book
offers professional development and self-study activities
for teachers - including student teachers, newly qualified
teachers, and staff new to guided reading; resources for literacy
subject coordinators; and resources for senior management
and leadership teams to support the implementation of high-quality
and effective guided reading lessons.
This book:
- demonstrates how guided reading works in practice.
- outlines how practice may vary depending on the choice of text,
teaching objectives and the needs of the child.
- provides guidance for school professional development sessions
or self-study.
- contains a new section that explores how to provide the rest
of the class with meaningful literacy activities while the teacher
is focusing on a particular guided reading group.
- provides guidance for school subject leaders and senior managers.
Which Book and Why includes a supporting online resource
with:
- professional development sessions linked to each part (or unit).
- two fully searchable databases (one for decodable
texts and one for banded texts) to support schools and teachers
in choosing the most appropriate books at the right level for
each group in a class.
- overviews of book schemes and series.
- information to support setting up a guided reading library for
four- to seven-year-olds.
- supplementary professional development sessions, guidance and
materials for assessing children and organising groups.
- sample lessons to accompany colour-banded books.
- book banding descriptors.
Sue Bodman and Glen Franklin are Reading Recovery national leaders
at the European Centre for Reading Recovery based at the Institute
of Education, University of London.
