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AIS AD: Purpose of Text Types for Shared Reading

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Burkins and Yates

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Text Complexity K-2 Tool for Supporting Readers

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Jan Burkins Free Digital GR Books (with a running record form)

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Jan Burkins Free Digital GR Books (with a running record form)

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Many thanks to for letting me share these books as ebooks. For some ideas on how to use them and some descriptions of the ways they are connected, you may want to read this blog . These books are part of the Who's Doing the Work? collection for the K-2 Lesson Sets from Stenhouse. If you are interested in the lessons that go with them, you can download a set of free, sample lessons (reading art, read aloud, shared reading, guided reading, and independent reading) and learn more about the lesson sets,

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Virtual collection of beginning reading texts by Jan Burkins and Kim Yaris

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Many thanks to for letting me share these books as ebooks. For some ideas on how to use them and some descriptions of the ways they are connected, you may want to read this blog . These books are part of the Who's Doing the Work? collection for the K-2 Lesson Sets from Stenhouse.

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The Reading GPS gives teachers information about whether students are moving toward the goal of proficient reading.

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Got: including interest survey questions with our F&P

Want: a little more time to plan with the team

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Got: assess fluency beyond WPM. Assess student learning by punctuation awareness & understand sentences.

Want: Planning to implement guided reading or small groups.

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I really enjoyed this session. I felt each part was purposeful for something that our team was discussing right at this time. It will help drive our assessment period that is right around the corner. Thank you so much, Sarah!

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I really enjoyed this session. I felt each part was purposeful for something that our team was discussing right at this time. It will help drive our assessment period that is right around the corner. Thank you so much, Sarah!

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- Purposeful and relevant to what we are talking about and doing right now. Some really great suggestions and practical ideas. Thank you.

- Continuation of planning ideas and time to work together. Thank you.

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Engagement Inventory and Reading Interest Survey. Very interesting and will be beneficial for my students.

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Got ways to keep students engaged while they learning and how to measure whether they are engaged or not

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Got ways to keep students engaged while they learning and how to measure whether they are engaged or not

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LOVE the text complexity cards. Very helpful.

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Text complexity cards will help the parents help their child.

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Burkins and Yates (2021)

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Burkins and Yates 2021

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High Leverage Instructional Routines for Problem Solving

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High Leverage Instructional Routines for Problem Solving

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Burkins and Yates

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High-Leverage Instructional Routines to Support Problem Solving Strategies

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The Six Shifts Where Science of Reading Meets Balanced Literacy. We provide resources, professional development, and literacy audits for busy literacy educators like you.

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Gots: Having extra time to analyze our data and look specific cues to plan for next steps

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Gots: Having extra time to analyze our data and look specific cues to plan for next steps

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Got:Time to look at the running records and using that to decide strategy groups.

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Got:Time to look at the running records and using that to decide strategy groups.

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Want: time to plan groups

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Got: time to analyze running records/clear up misconceptions/more learning as a team

Want: time to plan/look at the tools we have on campus for small and whole group instruction

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Thank you for the extra time allowing us to analyze and discuss the reading data.

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Thank you for the extra time allowing us to analyze and discuss the reading data.

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Gots: Looking at running records was helpful. Discussion with team about strategies.

Wants: Specific strategies to help with the errors.

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How to use MSV in the running records. How this can help set the groups for reading
Wants
More strategies to aid with the errors.

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Identifying goals and focus for guided reading groups.

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Reminders of high leverage tools to support oral language in KG 

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Reminders of high leverage tools to support oral language in KG 

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Extra planning time and gaining new tools to dissect data and running records

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GOTs: looking at MSV to help analyze our readers and having time to talk with the team about strategies and what we have noticed with our data 

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GOTs: looking at MSV to help analyze our readers and having time to talk with the team about strategies and what we have noticed with our data 

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WANTS: Continue to have professional discussions with the team with helpful resources shared

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High Leverage Instructional Routines for Problem Solving

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High Leverage Instructional Routines for Problem Solving

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Burkins and Yates

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High-Leverage Instructional Routines to Support Problem Solving Strategies

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Goal 3- The Reading Strategies Book (Serravallo, 2015)

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Word Prompting: What to Say When Kids Struggle on a Word

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Word Prompting: What to Say When Kids Struggle on a Word

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Brown, K.J. 2003

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What to Say When They Struggle on a Word

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Mesmer, 2019

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Letter Lessons and First Words: Beyond First Words

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Letter Lessons and First Words: Beyond First Words

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Letter Lessons and First Words Chapter 6: Beyond First Words Learning Long Vowels and Other Patterns

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What did you notice?
-Structure
-Teaching moves
-Students

What are you thinking or wondering?

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 Formative Assessment Boxes -AISAbu Dhabi

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Strategy Lesson Planning - AIS Abu Dhabi Kg Gr 1

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What would you like to dig into? Take some time to think about it over the next couple of weeks. Check in with your Team Lead.

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If you're not sure how phonics fits within your daily instruction, or crave a more effective process for teaching phonics, Heidi Anne Mesmer is here to help. In Letter Lessons and First Words, Heidi Anne provides a research-based vision of what lively, engaging phonics instruction can look like, along with practical, classroom-tested tools to make it happen in your classroom.

Heidi Anne provides a one-stop shop for phonics instruction, including a clear scope and sequence of what to teach, a quick assessment to differentiate instruction, a simple lesson framework, and three activity-filled units matching key developmental milestones.

More than twenty classroom videos bring the content to life, showing children working with letters, words, and books at various stages of learning. Additional resources include:

A "know the code" chapter explaining English spelling (and online glossary)

Answers to common questions

Guidance about choosing books for readers at different stages

new info about how children cognitively store words and why inductive tension is important.

Isn't it time to re-imagine how you teach phonics? Letter Lessons and First Words will show you the way toward joyful instruction for today's classrooms.

Read Heidi Anne's Blog post Developmentally Responsive Phonics Instruction: A Research-Based Approach

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Research-based strategies for lively, engaging phonics instruction with young children. - Heinemann

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Your Research-based Guide to Developing Skilled Readers. 300+ strategies with learning progressions support 13 reading goals, with each strategy cross-linked to skills, teacher tips, prompts, research, and reading levels—everything from fluency to literary analysis.

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Following up on Reading Wellness, Jan Burkins and Kim Yaris explore how some traditional scaffolding practices may actually rob students of important learning opportunities and independence. Who's Doing the Work? suggests ways to make small but powerful adjustments to instruction that hold students accountable for their own learning.

Educators everywhere are concerned about students whose reading development inexplicably plateaus, as well as those who face challenging texts without applying the strategies they've been taught. When such problems arise, our instinct is to do more. But when we summarize text before reading or guide students when they encounter difficult words, are we leading them to depend on our support? If we want students to use strategies independently, Jan and Kim believe that we must question the ways our scaffolding is getting in the way.

Next generation reading instruction is responsive to students' needs, and it develops readers who can integrate reading strategies without prompting from instructors. In Who's Doing The Work?, Jan and Kim examine how instructional mainstays such as read-aloud, shared reading, guided reading, and independent reading look in classrooms where students do more of the work. Classroom snapshots at the end of each chapter help translate the ideas in the book into practice.

Who's Doing the Work? offers a vision for adjusting reading instruction to better align with the goal of creating independent, proficient, and joyful readers.

Learn more about Who's Doing the Work? Lesson Sets.

Learn more about Who's Doing the Work? Independent Library Collections.
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Following up on Reading Wellness, Jan Burkins and Kim Yaris explore how some traditional scaffolding practices may actually rob students of important learning opportunities and independence. Who's Doing the Work? suggests ways to make small but powerful adjustments to instruction that hold students accountable for their own learning.

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I liked how she used the resources available on screen for students to reference.

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Connection to the funnel - "what can you do? What can you try?"

Questions: what level were the kids at for a vowel teams lessons?

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Wonder: How could I scaffold the chart (maybe use the chart for my higher ones).

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In the future, maybe put the students on mute where they can't unmute themselves. But also sometimes it's beneficial for them to be able to just call out when they are called on.

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Gots: We decided which resources would best benefit our students.

Wants: More time to work with each other

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Thank you for session 3.
It was great to see how books can be used for Shared reading or a Read Aloud.

It would be awesome to have some more examples of rich and authentic texts that we can use in KG2 for Shared Reading or Read Alouds.
Perhaps with some more examples of how to use them effectively too... if they can relate to our learner profile , that would be an added bonus.
Any other resources, example or suggestions for KG2, that you feel would be useful, would be great too, as we end our  time together.
Thanks again.

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The Reading GPS gives teachers information about whether students are moving toward the goal of proficient reading.

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Flyleaf Publishing - Online Materials Portal

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For Students - Flyleaf Publishing - Online Materials Portal

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Sign up for free at the bottom of the page

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A couple of years ago, and I wrote a collection of guided reading books to go with the Who's Doing the Work? K-2 Lesson Sets (Stenhouse, 2018). Carnegie Learning has graciously agreed to let me share the fiction titles from this collection with you, here on this site.

There are 15 titles ranging from Level A to Level J. I have built flipbooks with each title, and embedded them here on the site. The text below, one of my favorite in the collection, is an example of the set-up for each book, and will show you how the flipbooks in the collection work. Missing Socks, like all the books in the collection, includes illustrations designed to engage students and deepen the story.
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Mindfulness:
​There are three titles in the collection that relate to mindfulness. Happy (Level C) is about a little girl who is exploring different kinds of happiness, such as the calm happiness of a breeze vs. the palpable happiness of a surprise birthday party. Hurry Up, Slow Down (Level D) is about a little girl who is walking to school with her father and is caught up in the simple beauty around her. Finally, Everyday Beautiful (Level H) is about two boys who have been asked to find something beautiful. One boy overlooks the natural beauty around him while another shows him how simple things can be beautiful.

There are five titles in the collection that use science related to light and shadows to tell a story. They range in levels from C-J. We wrote these to align with science standards. If you teach light and shadows, you may find these texts a nice way to integrate your science content into your reading instruction.

The books are all in flipbook format and are free to use and share with children, but they require a password to access them. To get the password, complete the form below. When you hit submit, a password will pop up on the screen. Use that password in step 2 (below) to access the books.

If you already have the these digital versions of some of the books should be helpful. Although you don't need the lessons to use the books, if you are interested in the lessons that go with the books, they are available from .

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Free Virtual Guided Reading Book Collection

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A couple of years ago, and I wrote a collection of guided reading books to go with the Who's Doing the Work? K-2 Lesson Sets (Stenhouse, 2018). Carnegie Learning has graciously agreed to let me share the fiction titles from this collection with you, here on this site.

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Choosing and Using Decodable Texts: Practical Tips and Strategies for Enhancing Phonics Instruction

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Amazon.com: Choosing and Using Decodable Texts: Practical Tips and Strategies for Enhancing Phonics Instruction (9781338714630): Blevins, Wiley: Books

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3 Things I Learned
2 Things I want to Try
1 Wondering I Have

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3 Things I Learned
Simplify to Amplify
Small groups
Text Complexity Cards

2 Things I want to Try
Learner Profile Library
Decodable texts

1 Wondering I Have
Linking Learner Profile

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3. How to incorporate Shared Texts into the class
2. Using small groups - eg: guided reading - in effective ways
1. Using assessments in relevant ways

2. Continue to find some authentic texts for modeling and sharing reading
1. Giving st'ds more time to read independently .

1. I wonder how much I can get done in the next 10 weeks - ish! :)
The Simplify to Amplify really helps with this too :)

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3 Things I Learned
- read alouds with learner profiles
- shared reading flow is similar to what we are doing now
- continuing to analyze student data
2 Things I want to Try
- more shared reading with nonfiction
- more small groups with virtual students
1 Wondering I Have

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3. Shared reading, ways to link learner profiles, simplify to amplify
2. Learner profile library, flyleaf
1. I wonder how much I can apply in the last bit of the school year!

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3. Shared reading, simplifying the unit & implementing a "healthy diet" of books.
2. Loved the Learner Profile Library & Reading Flow

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3. Resources for decodable texts, shared reading possibilities, ideas for incorporating Learner profile

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3. Resources for decodable texts, shared reading possibilities, ideas for incorporating Learner profile

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2. Shared reading as a whole group,
1. Best uses of time with our shorttenedRamadan schedule

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How to complete the VMS analyse on the running records
Various ways to take on the shared reading
new websites for books

2 things I want to try
Learner profile library
A different approach to the shared reading

1 wonder what are the critical elements are for writing and reading for complete beginners and students who are struggling.

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Linking learner profiles, the virtual library is an awesome resource

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3- amazing ways to present shared reading 

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3- amazing ways to present shared reading 

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2- small groups
1- learner profiles linking

2- learner profile library
1- text- complexity cards

1- How to present all this wonderful information with little time and in virtual setting

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3 things I learned:
--more info on Shared Reading
--giving more balance to shared reading
--small groups effectively

2 things I want to try
--learner profile library
--flyleaf

1 wonder I have...
--how to get it all done in time to meet student needs!!! Ahhhh!!!!