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Welcome to Literacy Voices, where our experts share instructional strategies with teachers. You'll find practical classroom tips from real educators, personal stories and innovative approaches to improving your teaching practice, and tools you can use immediately.

  1. Guided Reading K-5: Focusing on Learners, Session 2

    Guided Reading K-5: Focusing on Learners, Session 2

    Watch as Educational Consultant, Debra Crouch focuses on assessments and grouping for Guided Reading lessons in this Guided Reading Webinar Series, Session 2. C...
  2. Guided Reading K-5: Learning about Supports and Challenges in Texts, Session 3

    Guided Reading K-5: Learning about Supports and Challenges in Texts, Session 3

    Watch as Educational Consultant, Debra Crouch explains the use of supports and challenges within leveled texts in this Guided Reading Webinar, Session 3. Click ...
  3. Guided Reading K-1: Lessons with Emergent Readers, Session 4

    Guided Reading K-1: Lessons with Emergent Readers, Session 4

    Watch as Educational Consultant, Debra Crouch focuses on Lesson Structure and Facilitation for Discussion with Emergent Readers in this 4th session of our Guide...
  4. Guided Reading K-2: Lessons with Early Readers, Session 5

    Guided Reading K-2: Lessons with Early Readers, Session 5

    Watch as Educational Consultant, Debra Crouch discusses lesson structure and facilitation for discussion in Lessons with Early Readers, the fifth part of this G...
  5. Guided Reading 2-5: Lessons with Fluent Readers, Session 6

    Guided Reading 2-5: Lessons with Fluent Readers, Session 6

    Watch as Educational Consultant, Debra Crouch focuses on lesson structure and facilitation for discussion for guided reading lessons for fluent readers in the s...
  6. Guided Reading 3-5: Lessons with Advanced Readers, Session 7

    Guided Reading 3-5: Lessons with Advanced Readers, Session 7

    Watch as Educational Consultant, Debra Crouch focuses on Guided Reading for advanced readers in this Guided Reading Webinar, Session 7.Resources : Reading D...
  7. Why We Don’t Do Skill Work Before Reading in a Guided Reading Lesson

    Why We Don’t Do Skill Work Before Reading in a Guided Reading Lesson

    Many current iterations of Guided Reading, especially those with strong Reading Recovery® influences, heavily emphasize skill work.  This skilled work often o...
  8. How To Choose Texts for Engaging and Thoughtful Shared Reading

    How To Choose Texts for Engaging and Thoughtful Shared Reading

    Shared Reading Books Well-constructed big books for Shared Reading are a powerful and multilayered instructional tool. But choosing the right book for Shared...
  9. How Do Repeated Shared Readings Develop and Expand Language?

    How Do Repeated Shared Readings Develop and Expand Language?

    As Don Holdaway (1979) believed when he designed the instructional approach we know as Shared Reading, “children who are not thoroughly familiar with the ...

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