The document outlines the daily lesson cycle for guided reading in small groups, which consists of 8 parts that take 15-25 minutes per group. It involves word work practice, a familiar or new book read, a focus mini lesson on reading skills or word families, introducing a new book with a title, summary and picture walk, students reading independently while being listened to, comprehension questions, and praise/teaching points before extending into other subjects. The cycle is meant to be flexible depending on student needs assessed through data.

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BALANCED LITERACY READING WORKSHOP – “WORK TIME”
GUIDED READING (SMALL GROUP) DAILY LESSON CYCLE(15-25 MINUTES PER GROUP)
1. Word Work Practice (Consonant Digraphs, Vowel Digraphs, Diphthongs, Affixes, Silent Letters, Plural & Inflectional
Endings, R Controlled Vowels, Schwa Words, High Frequency Words Cards). Review I can Statement.
2. Warm up/Familiar Read (Familiar or Former new book – use until there is nothing left to learn from the book, or if
students have memorized the book)
3. Focus Mini Lesson (Review I can statement…) ( For example: Word families, reinforcing word work, 1-1 matching,
Reading Comprehension Skills (Main Idea, Inference, Characterization, etc) (All lessons are BRIEF).
4. Introduce the book
 Title
 Brief summary (one sentence - leaving out the ending to allow room for problem solving)
 Artifacts to help student with unfamiliar terms (e.g., plastic animals, shovel, tea cup, etc.)
 Picture walk (not every page)
 Purpose: “We’re reading to find ………….
5. Students read softly at their own pace (Teacher listen in – especially to your lowest readers. You may want to
get up and stand behind readers so that you can hear them better. Intervene with prompts. If a student begins to echo or
“shadow” another reader, tell him to pause for a moment.)
6. Comprehension Check HOTS Questions (ask students what the book was about. Using HOTS Kilgo
Questioning Stems)
7. Praise Point/Teaching Point (Choose one thing that a student (or students) did well and ask a student to
replicate it.) (Reiterate the I can statement) . Review I can statemtn.
8. Extension: Multi Thematic – Writing, Science, Social Studies.
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***You may not get to all of the Cycle parts, Please use your best judgment according to your data analysis of your students
gaps.