The Next Step Forward in Guided Reading - by Jan Richardson (Paperback)

About the Book

Jan Richardson's highly anticipated update to the classic bestseller, The Next Step in Guided Reading, helps you and your students move forward. You'll find all the planning and instructional tools you need to teach guided reading well, from pre-A to fluent. Organized around Richardson's proven Assess-Decide-Guide framework, this new resource includes 29 comprehension modules, more than 50 streaming video lessons, and dozens of downloadables.

Book Synopsis

Jan Richardsonâ€(TM)s highly anticipated update to the classic bestseller, The Next Step in Guided Reading, helps you and your students move forward. Youâ€(TM)ll find all the planning and instructional tools you need to teach guided reading well, from pre-A to fluent. Organized around Richardsonâ€(TM)s proven Assess-Decide-Guide framework, this new resource includes 29 comprehension modules, more than 50 streaming video lessons, and dozens of downloadables.

Jan Richardson's highly anticipated update to the classic bestseller The Next Step in Guided Reading helps you and your students move forward.

In this resource-rich book, you'll find:

• All the planning and instructional tools you need to teach guided reading well, from pre-A to fluent, organized around Richardson's proven Assess-Decide-Guide framework.
• Prompts, discussion starters, teaching points, word lists, intervention suggestions, and more to support all students, including dual language learners and struggling readers.
• 29 comprehension modules that cover essential strategies-monitoring, retelling, inferring, summarizing, and many others.
• Plus an online resource bank with dozens of downloadable assessment and record-keeping forms, Richardson's all-new, stage-specific lesson plan templates.
• More than 50 videos showing Jan modeling key parts of guided reading lessons for every stage.

Review Quotes

Next Step Forward in Guided Reading is a must for every teacher's professional library. Jan not only unpacks the complexities of the reading process, but also provides a practical guide for teachers to follow as they implement guided reading."--C.C. Bates, Ph.D., Literacy, Language, and Culture, Clemson University

Reading Next Step Forward in Guided Reading is like talking with Jan. You get clear, practical, and actionable suggestions for helping children move along a trajectory of growth toward evermore challenging texts." --Holly Slaughter, Reading and Language Arts Specialist, Pinellas County Schools, FL

"Our school literacy program has been successful because of the work of Jan Richardson. This book captures her expertise beautifully, not just through words, but also through videos of her demonstrating actual strategies. What a gift for reading teachers of all elementary grades!" --Jill Levine, Chief Academic Officer, Hamilton County, Chattanooga, TN

"Our school literacy program has been successful because of the work of Jan Richardson. This book captures her expertise beautifully, not just through words, but also through videos of her demonstrating actual strategies. What a gift for reading teachers of all elementary grades!"

--Jill Levine, Chief Academic Officer, Hamilton County, Chattanooga, TN

Reading Next Step Forward in Guided Reading is like talking with Jan. You get clear, practical, and actionable suggestions for helping children move along a trajectory of growth toward evermore challenging texts."

--Holly Slaughter, Reading and Language Arts Specialist, Pinellas County Schools, FL

About the Author

Jan Richardson, Ph.D., is an educational consultant who has trained thousands of teachers and provided classroom demonstrations on guided reading. Dr. Richardson is the best-selling author of The Next Step Forward in Guided Reading (Scholastic) and coauthor of Next Step Guided Reading Assessment (Scholastic). A former teacher, she has taught in every grade, K-12. She has been a reading specialist, a Reading Recovery teacher leader, and a staff developer.