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.

Downloadable Resources and Assessments by Grade Level

Literacy Center Resources

Word Knowledge Inventory

Assessment: In Practice

Assessment Summary Chart

Running Records Directions

Blank Running Records

Literably Online Running Record

How to Use Data to Create Guided Reading Groups

How to Form Guided Reading Groups by Using Multiple Data Points

Guided Reading Levels Conversion Charts

Reading Behaviors by Guided Reading Level

The GRo App

Tips for Determining Guided Reading Groups

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

Steps for Interactive Writing

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+)

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

Teaching Tip: Teaching Guided Reading Remotely

18 Ways to Use Lego Bricks to Teach Literacy

• Literacy Centers: Getting Started

• A Guide to Guided Reading
• Jan Richardson Guided Reading
• Literacy Footprints

• 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