Guided Reading Groups begin MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 15TH

What is Guided Reading?

If you would like to understand more about what Guided Reading is please visit this blog under the Language Arts tab and scroll down:

http://fantasticfirstgradersatarches.blogspot.com/p/language-arts.html

Guided Reading will begin on Monday, September 15th

Although assessments will continue throughout the week of 9/15 which will provide further information helping me with instruction, enough information has been gathered to place my students in guided reading groups.

The Guided Reading books will not be sent home.

Please focus on the FLUENCY BOOKS, POEM PACKETS, OR PASSAGES that will be sent home in the back pocket of your child's Take Home Folder.  

These book(s), poem packets, or passages should be read for an entire week to improve fluency.  These readings will generally be below level and may seem "EASY" to your child.  Please continue to explain to them that reading is not just about the ability to decode the words effectively.  A fluent reader:

PLEASE REVIEW the pyramid below so you understand the vital part FLUENCY is in your child's reading progression: