Guided Reading: Good First Teaching for All Children | 
 enlarge | Authors: Gay Su Pinnell, Irene C. Fountas
Publisher: Heinemann
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  14 reviews
Sales Rank: 2988
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 424
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.1
Dimensions (in): 11 x 8.5 x 0.9
ISBN: 0435088637
Dewey Decimal Number: 372.4
EAN: 9780435088637
ASIN: 0435088637
Publication Date: October 7, 1996
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This is an important book for teachers, administrators, prospective teachers, college professors, or anyone seeking to provide quality teaching to children in their first years of schooling.
- Harvard Educational Review Among the many changes to sweep American literacy education has been a move toward whole class instruction. Nonetheless, children still bring to literacy a wide range of experiences and competencies. How, then, might teachers best support a literate community yet still meet the needs of individual readers? For Fountas and Pinnell, the answer lies in guided reading, which allows children to develop as individual readers within the context of a small group. Their new book is the richest, most comprehensive guided reading resource available today and the first systematic offering of instructional support for guided reading adherents. Guided Reading was written for K-3 classroom teachers, reading resource teachers, teacher educators, preservice teachers, researchers, administrators, and staff developers. Based on the authors' nine years of research and development, it explains how to create a balanced literacy program based on guided reading and supported by read aloud, shared reading, interactive writing, and other approaches. While there is an entire chapter devoted solely to the process by which children become literate, every chapter clearly presents the theoretical underpinnings of the practices it suggests. Also included are guidelines for: observation and assessment dynamic grouping of readers creating sets of leveled books selecting and introducing books teaching for strategies classroom management. Best of all, there are well over 2,500 leveled books in the Appendixes, along with many other reproducible resources that teachers will use for years to come. "Good first teaching is the foundation of education and the right of every child," assert the authors. With the publication of this book, educators themselves will find the foundation in reading skills instruction they so rightly deserve.
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Very helpful December 16, 2008
I bought this book to refresh my knowledge of guided reading. I attended college in the late 90s/ early 00s, when guided reading was all the rage. Guided reading was used in the school system where I taught third grade for two years. Now, I work in a high school and don't use guided reading. I remember hearing so much about Fountas & Pinnell's book that I purchased it.
The book is so helpful for primary reading teachers. It has no gimmicks! Just the facts- why guided reading, when guided reading, how guided reading. With an appendix of resources, Guided Reading: Good First Teaching for All Children can help any primary teacher "get through" the first year of teaching reading. Veteran teachers can keep this on their shelf for easy reference.
Just remember, not every classroom is heavenly. Not every child comes to school ready and willing to learn to read. Nor does every child understand the value of literacy. It can be an uphill battle to get your students to cooperate in a guided reading classroom. Don't blame guided reading for behavior issues!!! Instead, modify the guided reading classroom so students can slowly learn how to behave during guided reading.
A home-schoolers review September 25, 2008
This book was lent to me by a classroom teacher who's a friend of mine. He called it a "life saver." A few of the chapters didn't apply to me at all because they were about classroom management and assessment, but the other chapters were really excellent. I learned what to expect from my kids at different levels, and what to practice with them. I thought it was a great balance for the phonics approach that so many home-schoolers use. The authors show how to move from reading to a child, to reading with a child, to guiding the child as she reads, and then supporting a child's independent reading. The authors have a similar approach for teaching writing. There are two huge book lists, one organized by title and one by reading level--very helpful!
Great Book - How to make great Guided Reading groups May 14, 2007
Great classroom resource. Photocopy the worksheets to organize your groups with ease. Activities of what students not in teacher led groups could be doning with photocopy cards you can use in a chart to organize.
This book was highly recommended to me, I borrowed a copy, then decided I needed my own.
Guided Reading:Good First Teaching for All Children February 24, 2006
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
Great book to help teachers organize their classroom for guided reading groups. Has wonderful ideas to impliment learning centers and management of those centers while teaching guided reading groups. Our school has a copy of this book for each teacher to model their classroom after.
outstanding! July 4, 2003
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
I knew that my guided reading program needed to change, but didn't no exactly how to go about improving it. This book has all the answers! Although I'm on summer break, I can't wait to go back in the fall and get started on my new literacy program, putting into practice all the things I've learned from this book.
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