Recommendations for Reading and Returning to This Book
1. Beyond Reading Croups, Beyond Guided Reading
Small-Croup Instruction and The five Reading Tenets
2. Forming Croups: Making the Invisible Visible Through Assessment
Some Principles of Assessment
Assessing Print Work Strategies
Preplanned Groups Versus Impromptu Groups
3. Without Engagement We've Got Nothing: Helping Children Want to Read
The Urgency of the Engagement Problem
Mentoring Headers into Developing a Reading Identity
Talking Up Books in Groups
Small Groups to Self-Monitor and Fix Up Disengagement
Self-Assigning Reading Goals for Purposeful Reading
Sign-Up Seminars to Energize Learners
4. Guided Practice Toward Independence: Strategy Lessons for Comprehension, Print Work, and Fluency
Strategy Lessons at a Glance: Structure
Explicit Strategies, Effective Demonstrations, Just-Right Prompts
Releasing Scaffolding over Time
5. Talking About Books: Improving Partnerships and Clubs
Supporting Book Cuba and Partnerships
Differentiated Partnership Work: Kindergarten to Second Grade
Read-Aloud Book Clubs: First Grade and Up
Chapter Introduction* for Clubs: Second Grade and Up
Teaching During Partnership and Club Talk
6. Reading with Fluency and Expression: Shared Reading, Warm-Up and Transfer Groups, and Performance Clubs
Shared Reading: Assessment-Based Support from Teachers and Peers
Warm-Up and Transfer Groups
7. Moving Readers to the Next Level; Text-Level Introduction Groups
What Is Adequate Progress?
Getting to Know Leveled Books
Getting to Know Your Readers Within a Level
Ten-Level Introduction Groups: An Alternative to Guided Reading
8. Organizing and Managing Small-Croup Conferring: Common Questions
