Scholastic Professional Learning Catalog

Small Group/Guided Reading (continued)

Running Records: Assess, Analyze, and Group

This session explores how to gather and analyze the information that teachers need to identify students’ strengths and weaknesses and sort them into the groups where they can grow at the fastest rate.

Recommended for: K–8 teachers and instructional coaches Time: Three hours Item #s: In-Person: 650271 Virtual: 743494 Participants: Up to 30

Learning outcomes: • Understand the purpose of running records • Identify the materials to administer a running record • Administer a running record • Analyze miscues, retell, and comprehension

• Form groups based on a running record • Identify an instructional focus and choose a text to support lesson planning

Recommended Reading: The Next Step Forward in Running Records by Jan Richardson

Strategy Grouping with Leveled Texts

Strategy-based grouping allows teachers to work with a small number of students who are reading at different levels but struggle with a common reading strategy. Elementary teachers and/or interventionists will learn how to address the needs of readers through leveled texts and strategy lessons.

Recommended for: Grades 2–8 teachers and interventionists Time: Three hours Item #s: In-Person: 651235 Virtual: 743496 Participants: Up to 30

Learning outcomes: • Explore the benefits of strategy groups • Identify when strategy groups might be used • Identify a reader’s needs through an individual reader conference • Prepare a strategy lesson

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