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Small Groups for Big Readers
Ten Questions Answered About Core Reading Instruction in the K–5 Classroom
This book promotes small-group reading as a key tool for K–5 teachers, offering frameworks, videos, and text strategies. Teachers can differentiate instruction with evidence-based routines, creating a dynamic learning environment that nurtures readers and aligns whole-class instruction with small-group lessons.
Implement small-group reading instruction
In Small Groups for Big Readers, the authors advocate for small-group reading instruction as an effective way for teachers to help all students grow as skilled, developing readers. Through small-group instruction, K–5 teachers can differentiate instruction by using evidence-based routines, adopting an asset-based lens, and selecting texts tailored to students’ unique interests, needs, and goals, creating deeper engagement in reading.
K–5 teachers can use this book to:
- Understand and apply evidence-based routines that promote equitable, accessible literacy instruction
- Enhance students’ reading and knowledge building through carefully planned interactions and opportunities with text
- Empower students by establishing clear goals and guidelines for small-group lessons
- Plan for extended learning opportunities that provide sufficient, deliberate practice for literacy development
- Extend professional expertise by selecting and adapting strategies to differentiate literacy instruction, using a flexible, choose-your-own-adventure format to customize learning based on individual goals and needs
