Guided Reading Resources
The Guided Reading Process
According to The Next Step in Guided Reading (Richardson, 2016), there are three basic steps to conducting effective guided reading instruction. As students make progress, the arrangement of your guided reading groups may change. Thus, teachers will go through these 3 steps several times throughout the year. Below you will find activities, videos, professional articles, and other instructional resources to support the implementation of guided reading at each step.

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Running Record Demo Clip
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GUIDE
Because reading, word study, and writing are reciprocal processes, it is important that teachers integrate all three into their guided reading lessons. The errors students make during reading will also reveal what they support they need with word study and writing. It is important to note that the writing skills covered during guided reading should reinforce the same skills students use to write about the texts they have just read. These guided writing lessons should be completed while students are working with the teacher in small guided reading groups. Writing instruction that teaches the writing process and genres of writing should be taught outside of guided reading.
Guided Reading Lesson Resources
Guided Reading Videos by Level
Additional Guided Reading Lesson Videos
How to Teach Guided Word Study
Guided Reading Lesson Plan Templates
Pre-A Lesson Plan (Beginning/Non-readers)
Emergent Lesson Plan (F&P Levels A-C)
Early Lesson Plan (F&P Levels D-I)
Transitional Lesson Plan (F&P Levels J-P)
Fluent Lesson Plan (F&P Levels N+)
Pre-A Lesson Video
Working with Names Name Puzzle Part1 p 64
Using Sound Boxes
Sound Boxes - Blends
Using Analogy Charts
Analogy Chart - Vowel Patterns
Virtual Support for Teaching Guided Reading
Digital Tools for Virtual Instruction
- Alphabet Organizer - online game
- Teach Your Monster to Read -online game
- StoryOnline - read aloud by celebrities
- Literably Online Reading Assessment - online running records
- The GRo App- (Online organizer for small guided group instruction)
- Helper Bird - digital support for accommodations
- Wheel Decide Online Spinner -online spinner
- FlipGrid - video recording app for teachers and students
- Pear Deck - add a variety of question types to make slide presentations interactive
- Whiteboard.fi - assign each student his/her own interactive whiteboard
- Loom - allows you to include video of yourself with recorded slides (Great for Read Alouds so students can still see your expressions as you read!)
- Screencastify-Allows teachers to record asynchronous lessons, provide student feedback, etc.
Professional Reading
Distance Learning: Remote Guided Reading Lessons Made Easy
Summary of Virtual Support for Balanced Reading Approaches

Webinar: Virtual Guided Reading Grade K
Webinar: Virtual Guided Reading Grades 1 & 2
Virtual Guided Reading Tutorial
Distance Learning Guided Reading Tutorial!
Virtual Guided Reading Lesson: Yellow Questions Strategy
Cat People Day 1
Cat People Day 2
Virtual Guided Writing Lesson
Cat People Day 3
Virtual Word Study Lesson
Cat People Day 4
Using Digital Tools for Remote Guided Reading Lessons
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Additional Resources
- The Next Step to Guided Reading by Jan Richardson
- Guided Reading: Responsive Teaching across the Grades by Fountas and Pinnell
- No More Fake Reading: Merging Classics with Independent Reading to Create Joyful, Lifelong Readers by Berit Gordon