Guided Reading- Basal and D5 AND a giveaway :)

Thanks for stopping back again!  Well I found out today where all the kids are hanging out this summer... at the Library!  I guess that is a good thing yet I wasn't prepared to run into 3 former students/parents and other students(I didn't know!!) yelling my name from across the library... ugh.  At least I didn't look like a complete slob like I do most of the summer.  Note to self... dress nicely when dropping off the little one to storytime.
 
To continue with my guided reading journey, today I'd like to talk about how I fit guided reading with the dreaded Basal AND Daily 5.  Yikes!!  Of course don't have the magic answer; and I'm not even sure if I have it completely worked out just yet.  It has definitely been a learning experience with many ups and downs.  It's best to learn about your students and do what works best for that year and tweak it each year after that.  Here is a sampling of what I did this past year that worked pretty well.

Below is a snippet of my plan book-

As you can see I start off the week with the Basal story introduction (I should add I don't do the Basal EVERY WEEK- I'd shoot myself If I did!!)  Then for my first round of Daily 5 I do something Basal related- so on Monday I do a Read to Self with the Basal.  Then on Tuesday the students to a Read to Someone with the story.  On Wednesday we do a Listen to Reading with the Basal on Tape.  All during these times I am able to include my shared reading focus of the week- whatever it might be.  Also, during these times I am able to pull a guided reading group OR do an individual conference- again depending on the day and time.

Here is a sample of my guided reading group sheet(sorry this is the best I could get it!)

So this past year I had 4 groups.  I had 3 rounds of Daily 5.  I was either pulling a guided reading group or doing a conference.  I made sure to meet with my intervention group more often so that they would get extra attention.  I felt like I got so much more out of conferencing so I made that a priority.  My groups switched pretty often depending on how they were doing in the group and how they did on the running records that I gave. (at the bottom of this sheet is my student's names- that part got cut off)

So to make it all fit... for example.... on Monday during my first round of Daily 5 the ENTIRE class would do read to self with the Basal, but I pull my intervention kids and we read from our intervention text (as the Basal was not appropriate for their level).  The same goes for Tuesday and Wednesday on the first round.  On each other round I was either working with another group or meeting with students individually.

Yikes... did that even make sense??  I'd LOVE to hear how you make it all work? 

RESULTS from yesterday's giveaway:

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CONGRATS LORI!! :)

So... I'm giving away another Word Family Pack (great for your guided reading groups!)- BUT you need to leave a comment telling me a guided reading tip you have!  Remember to leave your email and be a follower :)  I will pick one lucky commenter at random tonight!

****Tomorrow I have another awesome FREEBIE and tip- so stop on back (and if you don't win the giveaway- come back and enter again)!!  Thanks so much for hangin' with me!
ps.. I forgot to mention that the next blog that will be featured on Teacher Tips Tuesday will be:

be on the look out for her GREAT tips next Tuesday!!
Thanks,