Guided Reading Idea #1

Last Monday when I presented at our in service I had a blast!!! I was so nervous - I had even made my mom, who is a 1st grade teacher, come to my school on Sunday so I could practice on her. Turns out I liked presenting and they liked what I had to say!! So I am really fired up about my blog and sharing my stuff. A lot of what I do, make and share is something I get from someone else and then tweak it to fit what I need. I will always do my best to share the original source/idea so you can have both and make it fit what you need! So....here is one of those ideas I loved and then made it fit what I needed. 

Awhile back I was looking for something for my high groups. They are reading chapter books and I had them filling out chapter summary pages. It was a lot of copies and well, I just didn't like it. Then I came across bookmarks at loryevanspage.blogspot.com and I loved it!!! But then I had trouble with the books. They are awesome but I needed something a little more generic so I could pull it out for anything - even when they choose their own. So here is my version:

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My groups love this and so do parents. I have gotten that now they can read and write in the car on the way to a practice and that it's easy to keep up with. Plus when we get together to discuss what we have been reading it gives us a starting point. I love seeing what they write and it leads to great discussions. Let me know what you think!!

Yeah for me I am keeping my resolution!! So I have been busy this week preparing for our inservice tomorrow! I am presenting to about 50 people "Ideas for Grouping: a better understanding of what to do during guided reading." I am so nervous. So... while I was getting ready for that I thought I need to share a couple of my favorite ideas on my blog!! So here they are:

At the beginning of the year our staff what given a ring with orange cardstock and the Bloom's questions for guided reading on it. It was great! I didn't have to think of questions and wonder what level anymore but it wasn't really user friendly and I felt odd using it - reading questions to them. I also had come across tissue dice on pinterest from thefirstgradeparade.blogspot.com. I loved it. SO... I decided to combine the two and make a Bloom's dice. My first round was great but, then I couldn't  remember which dice had what level questions on them. So then I made round two. Knowledge questions are in red and then we proceed in rainbow color and finally evaluation questions are in purple. I also made a dice with a question from every level. I love it. The kids love it. It makes it more fun to ask and answer questions about the stories we read. 

My dice with questions from all levels. 

Well, if you want to make one or all here are the questions ready to print, cut and tape on a tissue box!

Dice for all levels of questions

Knowledge Dice            Comprehension Dice       Application Dice      

Analysis Dice                 Synthesis Dice                Evaluation Dice

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I hope you enjoy and please let me know how it works for you!

The fluency folder is an idea I got from a blog this summer
(I don't remember which one, if you know please let me know!! I would love to give credit).
I took the idea and then adapted it for what I needed.
Here is my version:

Fluency Folder Resource Sheet (click to download)

Lucky Listener Sheet (click to download)

How Fluently Am I Reading?  (click to download)

Fluency Letter  (click to download)

Fluency Cards  (click to download)