Hello again!
Today I had 8 students in tutoring and it was completely amazing!! I have been reading this guide that I bought on TPT on how to become a guided reading guru and it is the most amazing thing that I have purchased since being on TPT. Go to this link to buy it if you want to. http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Become-a-Guided-Reading-Guru
It was 9 dollars when I bought it and it was completely worth every penny.
So anyway, today I was tutoring my students after school and had the best guided reading sessions in a long time! I am slowly learning how to choose books that are at the instructional level for my students. It is great to finally see them having some success with their reading. They are even choosing to read their guided reading books during free time/when they are done with their work time. I love seeing my students excited about their reading.
I had three students in my last group of guided reading during tutoring today. So we talked about good reader strategies and then we talked about what happens when you use all of those strategies and you are still stuck on a word. The students replied, "you ask a neighbor for help." And then I told them that sometimes the first neighbor doesn't know the word. And they said to ask another neighbor. So I let them start reading their stories on their own and let them put those strategies to work. One student stopped and said, "Miss" and before I could go help him his neighbor came over and said, "what word are you stuck on?" And they figured it out together with no help from me. It was magical!! I know it seems like such a small thing, but to see them grow from where they were when they came to me to where they are now is insane!! I love seeing progress even if it is small progress.
What a great day!
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