Guided Reading (5th Grade)

[Overman]

Hello All!!!!

Been a while but I'm back, and in the midst of student teaching! I have 5th grade and love it, and am very excited about my career switch...next week I take over for reading, and we do guided reading groups (break the kids into smaller groups by level and do different, usually independent, activities). I was wondering if anyone has any cool ideas for thing to do.

Thanks in advance!

Matt

[Dancing David]

For low readers comic books are great.

[Nihilianth]

For low readers comic books are great.

As long as they don't only say "POW!" or "BAM!" :D

On a more serious note, comic books, Manga, maybe a sports magazine, could all hold the interest of a 5th grader, and be a bit on the difficult side, but not so overwhelming. Especially the manga and even more so, the mags for the higher-level readers, when it comes to difficulty. Plus, you have all kinds of different options for difficulty level at your disposal, depending on the series.

Any baseball fans in your class? I highly suggest a baseball manga called "Ookiku Furikabutte," (Big Windup!) It's a great story, that also teaches some valuable life lessons. Such as hard work, friendship, the detriments of bullying, and so on. You should check out the series on Funimation! If you could get your hands on the manga, that would be some pretty good material to use.

There was this one comic book series that was pretty decent, forget what it was called. It also had some good life-lessons in the overarching story. I am personally not a big fan of comic books, but I know many kids are. So it works.

You could probably break the kids up into different parts as well. Comic books and manga are easy to give each child their own part. They just read the parts of the characters that are assigned to them. There are usually two or three main characters, so you can divide the group up into two or three kids each.

[drkitten]

On a more serious note, comic books, Manga, maybe a sports magazine, could all hold the interest of a 5th grader, and be a bit on the difficult side, but not so overwhelming. Especially the manga and even more so, the mags for the higher-level readers, when it comes to difficulty. Plus, you have all kinds of different options for difficulty level at your disposal, depending on the series.

There are also a number of good European comic books that would work well. if you can find some of the Asterix comics, for example,... the English translations are very good (very funny) and the historical content is surprisingly deep and accurate.

[Nihilianth]

There are also a number of good European comic books that would work well. if you can find some of the Asterix comics, for example,... the English translations are very good (very funny) and the historical content is surprisingly deep and accurate.

I'll have to check it out! Thanks!

[C_Felix]

The Trolls by Polly Horvath! Great and funny book! (Only has one objectionable word: scumbags.)

http://www.google.com/search?q=the+trolls+polly+horvath&rls=com.microsoft:en-us:IE-SearchBox&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&sourceid=ie7

I used to teach 5th grade (and it pains me to have to write that sentence)

and I was the guided reading master!

Overman, PM and I'll give you all my guided reading details. (I don't want to gum up this thread.)

[mikeyx]

Comic books are a very good introduction to gladitorial combat so kids are prepared to fight America's future wars.

[Rasmus]

As long as they don't only say "POW!" or "BAM!" :D

I learned how to read on "POW!" and "BAM!" - and incidentally, these pows and ams were in Astrix cartoons and they are indeed highly recommended. I could read by the time I started school that way ...

[Nihilianth]

I learned how to read on "POW!" and "BAM!" - and incidentally, these pows and ams were in Astrix cartoons and they are indeed highly recommended. I could read by the time I started school that way ...

You could also run around saying only "POW!" or "BAM!" I guess you could be like Bam-Bam Flintstone. :D