Good Habits Great Readers™
Features and Benefits
Features and Benefits
| Comprehensive Scope and Sequence | ||
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Why is this helpful? Provides structure and framework for those teachers just doing Guided Reading |
How does this help students and teachers? Equitable instructional time; makes sense to organize units as strategies/habits – doing what good teachers do but don't put words/labels to it |
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| Learning Centered Around: Gradual Release of Responsibility | ||
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Why is this helpful? Allows for teachers to Think Aloud correctly in order to model strategy correctly; Empowers students to become accountable for own learning |
How does this help students and teachers? Helps build better practitioners of reading instruction |
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| Strategies Become Lifelong Habits | ||
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Why is this helpful? Start with strategies and skills then tie them to literature |
How does this help students and teachers? Organizes units that makes sense |
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| Modes of Differentiated Reading Instruction | ||
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Why is this helpful? Provides instructional strategies and groupings that meets the varying needs of learners including ELL |
How does this help students and teachers? Addresses a larger range of individual student needs so that more students meet and exceed their learning goals |
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| Addresses 5 Elements of Reading | ||
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Why is this helpful? Addresses legislative initiatives on what good reading instruction should include |
How does this help students and teachers? Solid skill instruction on phonemic awareness where appropriate, phonics in both Shared and Guided Reading plans, comprehension, fluency and vocabulary |
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| Connected to Quick Reads and Words Their Way | ||
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Why is this helpful? Quick Reads: provides MORE support and activities for nonfiction vocabulary, fluency and comprehension. Words Their Way: provides MORE support for word work, spelling, comprehension, vocabulary and fluency |
How does this help students and teachers? Offers additional instruction and materials to further build vocabulary, word study, fluency and ultimately – comprehension |
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| Linked to DRA2 | ||
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Why is this helpful? Helps teacher link assessment to instruction with Focus for Instruction and create groups for Guided Reading |
How does this help students and teachers? Allows teachers to tailor instruction to gaps in student knowledge |
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| Provides Multiple Assessment Opportunities through Assessment Handbook and Assessment Card | ||
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Why is this helpful? Handbook provides how-when-what-why in assessment; how to group students; what behaviors to observe in literacy development; student outcomes |
How does this help students and teachers? Gives teachers a true picture or snapshot of each student's literacy development |
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| Shared Reading has Strong Teacher Language | ||
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Why is this helpful? Any teacher can deliver the lesson with the Model Lesson |
How does this help students and teachers? Ensures that all teachers can deliver the lessons, including substitutes and student teachers |
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| Unlimited Access to Online Database | ||
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Why is this helpful? Provides quick, 24-hour access to searchable Guided Reading lesson plans |
How does this help students and teachers? Allows for efficiency in planning and matching instruction to student needs; differentiated instruction created when using database to provide further skill and strategy instruction when needed |
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| Writing Tied Directly to Reading | ||
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Why is this helpful? Research supports lessons that connect reading and writing back to one another |
How does this help students and teachers? Embedded writing activities have students responding to writing; at grades 4-5 Unit Wrap Up includes expended response for state test prep all long the way; separate writing program has students using texts as models for writing |
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| Award-Winning Trade Books at grades K-3 | ||
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Why is this helpful? Authentic, beloved texts to use in Shared Reading |
How does this help students and teachers? Gives teachers trade books they have always loved reading to students; award-winning literature |
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| Poetry Posters packaged separately – not in flip book | ||
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Why is this helpful? Teachers can use these around room, in centers |
How does this help students and teachers? Allows for flexibility in use of posters and reuse of posters when needed |
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| Audio of Shared Reading | ||
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Why is this helpful? Builds fluency, vocabulary and comprehension |
How does this help students and teachers? Allows for teachers to use in centers |
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| Guided Reading Lesson Plans – on cardstock and laminated | ||
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Why is this helpful? Will last and cause fewer replacement costs; graphic organizers can be written on with dry erase marker |
How does this help students and teachers? Teachers can reuse plans over and over and can model how to use the graphic organizer |
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