Improve foundational reading skills with a guided reading program that appeals to students at every reading level.

Guided Reading: Summarize for first and second grades enhances language arts lesson plans with six sets of readers for below-level, on-level, and above-level reading skills. This reading comprehension resource book engages students with colorful images as they learn about topics such as bees, firefighters, weather, and more.

Ready to Go Guided Reading: Summarize offers the essentials for an effective, comprehensive language arts program for first and second grades. This book includes:

• leveled readers that cover high-interest topics
• graphic organizers
• prompts to encourage students to work with the text and text features
• discussion guides

The high-interest readers are separated into three readability levels and designed to keep students’ attention. Various call-out boxes direct students to apply guided reading strategies to the texts, such as scanning for meaning or word work. Each reader concludes with a writing prompt.

The Ready to Go: Guided Reading series for first to sixth grades includes everything you need for guided reading organization. Each 80-page book is essentially a guided reading set, containing 36 total readers, six discussion guides, and three reproducible pages. Four books are included in each grade span—each focuses on the essential reading comprehension strategies:

• Infer
• Connect
• Question
• Summarize

All readers contain short nonfiction texts and text features such as call-out boxes, photographs, charts, and maps.