Teaching students in small groups adds a large chunk of planning to any teacher's plate. Keep it simple! Choose one or two areas to focus on with your students during each group meeting, or even for a whole week. After all, you may only have that group for 10-20 minutes. Not only will it help you focus your instruction, but your students will have a clear purpose for reading and becoming better readers. Whether you meet with students by reading level, interest, or reading strategy, here is a great website with a plethora of instructional techniques to use with students.
Visit fcrr.org! It's the website for the Florida Center for Reading Research.
Use the "Student Center Activities Search Tool" under the link "Instructional Materials for Teachers." The search is broken down into 7 areas:
1. Phonemic Awareness
2. Phonics
3. Fluency
4. Vocabulary
5. Comprehension
6. DIBELS
7. SSS (Florida's State Standards)
Some of my students' favorites are the fluency games! You can print out directions to the game, as well as all the game materials. Not only can you use this with students during small groups to build fluency, but they can do it independently! Once they realize that they can read more smoothly and quickly, let them reread a page in a book a few times they are reading to see if they can read more smoothly and quickly.
There's no shame in "borrowing" ideas from a website or a respected colleague. Try what works and modify it for your students' needs.
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