Hend Gomaa

When students come to my lesson, I want everything ready to use because I do not have a minute to spare. I generally have:

A dry erase board, marker, and eraser

Guided reading helper cards

Reading glasses

Besides the set of leveled readers for that group on hand, the other resources I like to keep handy and have set up for the students are:

My tabletop easel to write on and display any updated sight words

My guided reading binder with my lesson plan/outline in front of me

Sight word cards learned so far

Alphabet chart

Fluency strips

1. Two minutes warm-up.

2. Word Work

3. Book introduction

 4 Purpose: Set

5. Students Read & I Take a Running Record of One Student

6. Book Summary & Comprehension Skill
7. Quick Write

Sometimes we will do quick writing. This is when I will have the students write one sentence to:

Tell me what happened in the story

Make a list of things from the story

Write about the connection they made with the text