Improve foundational reading skills with a guided reading resource that appeals to students at every reading level.
Guided Reading: Visualize for first and second grades enhances language arts lesson plans with 36 readers—six sets of two each for below-, on-, and above-level student readers. This resource book engages students with text and images as they learn about topics such as oceans, parks, multicultural celebrations, and more.
Ready to Go Guided Reading: Visualize offers the essentials for an effective, comprehensive guided reading program for first and second grades. This book includes:
- discussion guides
- prompts to encourage students to work with the text and text features
- leveled readers with intriguing topics
- graphic organizers and an observation sheet
The high-interest readers are separated into three readability levels and designed to keep students’ attention. Various callout 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. Each grade span includes 8 books, focusing on the following reading comprehension strategies:
- Connect
- Infer
- Question
- Summarize
- Analyze
- Determine Importance
- Synthesize
- Visualize
Each nonfiction reader contains short nonfiction texts, vocabulary banks, photographs, charts, and maps.