EDU 484 Partner Journal Text Reading Assignments
TEXTS: Guiding Readers and Writers, Irene Fountas and Gay Su Pinnell, Strategies That Work,
Stephanie Harvey & Anne Goudvis
GRW = Guiding Readers and Writers (tan book) STW = Strategies That Work
Peer journaling: You read a chapter and then e-mail it to your partner. She does the same to you. You respond to what
she has written. Read & send a chapter a day. (Turn in complete journal at the end of the semester.)
Day 1 GRW Chapter 10 “Writing to Explore Meaning: Response Journals”
GRW Chapter 17 “Responding to Literature: Multiple Paths to Deeper Meaning”
Day 2 GRW Chapter 1 “Becoming Lifelong Readers and Writers: The Goal of the Intermediate Literacy
Program”
GRW Chapter 18 “Understanding the Reading Process”
Day 3 GRW Chapter 19 “Teaching for Comprehending Written Text: Across the Language and
Literacy Framework”
GRW Chapter 11 “Understanding Guided Reading”
Day 4 GRW Chapter 12 “Planning for Guided Reading”
GRW Chapter 13 “Dynamic Grouping for Effective Teaching in Guided Reading”
Day 5 GRW Special Feature: p. 249 Struggling Readers and Writers: Teaching That Makes a
Difference
Day 6 GRW Chapter 8 “Planning Effective Mini-lessons and Conferences”
GRW Chapter 26 “Supporting Readers and Writers: Tools That Make a Difference in
Comprehending and Constructing Texts, GRW Appendices
Day 7 GRW Chapter 28 “Making Teaching Decisions Using Continuous Assessment
GRW Special Feature p. 508 Struggling Readers and Writers: Teaching That Makes a
Difference
Day 8 GRW Chapter 21 “Teaching for Connecting and Expanding Strategies in Guided Reading”
GRW Chapter 3 “Investigating and Using Language: The Language and Word Study Design
GRW Special Feature: p. 111 Struggling Readers and Writers: Teaching That Makes a
Difference
Day 9 STW Chapter 1 “Strategic Thinking”
STW Chapter 2 “Strategic Reading”
Day 10 STW Chapter 3 “Strategy Instruction and Practice”
STW Chapter 4 “Teaching with Short Text”
STW Chapter 5 “Book Selection”
Day 11 (Week 3)– Begin observing at your host school.
Day 16 (Week 4) – Begin working with your student group.
Optional Readings:
GRW Chapter 2 “Achieving Literacy with a Three-Block Framework: Language & Word Study, Reading &
Writing
GRW Chapter 4 “Becoming Joyful Readers: The Reading Workshop”
GRW Chapter 7 “Encouraging Independent Reading”
GRW Chapter 9 “Getting Started: The First 20 Days of Independent Reading”
GRW Special Feature: p. 186 Struggling Readers and Writers: Teaching That Makes a Difference
GRW Chapter 5 “Developing Accomplished Writers: The Writing Workshop”
GRW Chapter 15 “Discovering Literature Study: The Essential Elements”
GRW Chapter 16 “Putting Literature Study in Action”
GRW Special Feature p. 299 Struggling Readers and Writers: Teaching That Makes a Difference
GRW Chapter 25 “Exploring the Writer’s Terrain: Writer Talks, Writer’s Notebooks and Investigations”
GRW Chapter 22 “Teaching for Word-Solving: Phonics, Spelling and Vocabulary
GRW Special Feature: p. 386 Struggling Readers and Writers: Teaching That Makes a Difference
GRW Chapter 23 “Teaching Genre and Content Literacy: Explore Fiction and Nonfiction Texts
GRW Chapter 27 “Understanding the ‘Testing Genre’: Preparing Students for High-Quality Performance
GRW Chapter 14 “Selecting, Introducing and Using Leveled Texts”
GRW Special Feature p. 249 Struggling Readers and Writers: Teaching That Makes a Difference
GRW Chapter 20 “Teaching for Sustaining Strategies in Guided Reading”
GRW Chapter 6 Making it Work: Organizing and Managing Time, Space and Resources
Blake 2007
