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The Ultimate Guided Reading How-To Book: Building Literacy through Small Group Instruction
by Gail Saunders-Smith
Zephyr Press, 2002
ISBN: 1569761523Author Gail Saunders-Smith is a former primary-level classroom teacher and Reading Recovery teacher leader, former Language Arts K-12 Supervisor and Coordinator of State and Federal Programs in Akron, Ohio, and currently a national consultant and writer. Based on her extensive experience, her book discusses the foundations of the reading process, specific techniques for appropriate "teacher talk," grouping schemes, analyzing texts, organizing and supervising guided reading, and appropriate follow-up.
Saunder-Smith begins with history of past practices in reading instruction and offers current strategies in guided reading that are proving exceptionally successful at different levels from re-readers to proficient. The process also leaders to higher levels of understanding and fluency, and where is has been used has resulted in dramatically improved standardized test scores. With literacy at the top of the agenda in learning basics, this book will reach a large and receptive group of teachers in search of "what works."
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