Has Covid 19 been messing with your reading groups this year like it has mine?

Usually my students have a large array of books which they can choose to read from, as well as books they are able to take home. This year, however, has definitely made that more challenging. Every teacher knows that kids need to practice reading in order to learn to read, and we need books to do that! That’s why I am so grateful for Kindergarten Kiosk’s Guided Readers. I am able to print off multiple copies so each of my students has their own copy. No need to worry about sharing germs here!

ReadingKathy CraneApril 23, 2021Guided Reading

Stem Guided Readers

This fascinating new series takes young readers through the worlds of natural science and man-made inventions. Good quality STEM readers are hard to find, you will love this series. To get you started, I would like to offer you a Promo Code: STEMOCT419 to save you 15% off your purchase of $50.

Kathy CraneOctober 14, 2019STEM, Guided Reading

Tracking Print

Did you know that Level A and Level B books were created especially to teach children to track print? It’s true! These two beginning levels have a specific purpose. To train a child’s eyes to track print on the page using their finger as a guide. In this way they experience important concepts of print: that print moves from left to right, how to hold a book and turn the pages, and how to identify individual letters and words. After a child has learned to track print, it is important for them to move immediately to Level C, to start learning word attack and decoding skills.

Kathy CraneMarch 23, 2019Reading Skills, Intervention, Guided Reading

Three Billy Goats: Reader's Theater or Partner Play

Call them what you will, Reader's Theater, Partner Plays, or simply, what it is, reading for fluency and comprehension. No matter the name or the purpose, young children love to read, practice, rehearse and perform! Students love these books and their headband costumes!

Kathy CraneJune 25, 2017Guided Reading, Oral Language, Reader TheaterComment

Reading Strategies

The very first reading strategy that I teach my kindergartners on the first week of school is to sit in reading position using the cute little song. Students are very responsive and quickly develop habits of quiet sitting at the reading table. Now I want to say this strategy is a lot for me and my sanity, but actually, if students sit in a quiet manner at the guided reading table their attention is maximized.

Kathy CraneFebruary 20, 2017Guided ReadingComment

Getting Nonreaders to Read

In January I gave the midyear Directed Reading Assessment to my students. Most of them did well, but a few of them really struggled. Despite all that we had done, they were still not looking at print, and leaning too heavily on the strategy of using picture clues.

AynFebruary 19, 2017Guided ReadingComment

Book Boxes: And Guided Readers.

A home reading program will be more effective if the student has a way to save or store the books. A book box is a great at-home storage solution. A book box can easily be made out of a shoe box - either a regular shoe box or a purchased plastic shoe box. Your students can decorate the boxes at home. They can be elaborately decorated right from the pages of pinterest, or just covered with stickers.

Kathy CraneFebruary 19, 2017Guided ReadingComment

Using Emergent Readers With Early Readers

Guided Reading is an important part of the literacy spectrum as it is a time to work with students of similar needs and abilities using material at their instructional level. It is a time to introduce and practice important reading strategies, build one to one correspondence, and to practice the importance of rereading text, and more.

If you are like me and find the guided books in your basal series to be marginal at best, you need something more. I have been making thematic books for two decades now, and find they fit the bill for effective guided reading. I have several sets for sale at our on-line store, they are moderately priced. My students love these little books! I usually sent home two a week. Additionally, each of our 50 plus thematic units and 12 homework packets each contain at least one guided reader.

Kathy CraneFebruary 19, 2017Guided ReadingComment