The Next Step Forward in Guided Reading An Assess-Decide-Guide Framework for Supporting Every Reader

In this resource-rich book, you’ll find:

- All the planning and instructional tools you need to teach guided reading well, from pre-A to fluent, organized around Richardson’s proven Assess-Decide-Guide framework.

- Prompts, discussion starters, teaching points, word lists, intervention suggestions, and more to support all students, including dual language learners and struggling readers.

- 29 comprehension modules that cover essential strategies—monitoring, retelling, inferring, summarizing, and many others.

- Plus an online resource bank with dozens of downloadable assessment and record-keeping forms, Richardson’s all-new, stage-specific lesson plan templates.

- More than 50 videos showing Jan modeling key parts of guided reading lessons for every stage.

Jan Richardson, PhD, is an educational consultant based in Wisconsin who has trained thousands of teachers and provided classroom demonstrations on guided reading. Dr. Richardson is the best-selling author of The Next Step in Guided Reading (Scholastic) and coauthor of Next Step Guided Reading Assessment (Scholastic). A former teacher, she has taught in every grade, K–12. She has been a reading specialist, a Reading Recovery teacher leader, and a staff developer.