Guided reading books for kindergarten
Printable & Digital Guided Reading Books for Kindergarten & First Grade
Guided Reading Books available in printable and digital format for K/1. Leveled readers with lesson plans, running records, word work activities, and more!
Guided Reading Books
Small-group guided reading is our time to truly work closely with students in the hopes of creating fluent readers. Students work on high-frequency words, establish reading strategies, and write sentences, all while becoming confident readers. However, sometimes our resources are limited. The biggest problem we seem to face… our schools are unable to provide enough leveled texts. So, we created leveled readers that were written with the Fountas and Pinnell text structure guidelines in mind. And now, they are becoming available in digital format!
Lesson Plans
I wanted to take some time to review our lesson plan that comes with each of our guided reading books. Throughout 2 days, students will be introduced to a book, practice a strategy, and respond through guided writing.
High Frequency Words
If you don’t have cookie sheets with magnetic letters, I highly recommend getting some! It makes organizing your small-group practice so much easier.
Start by introducing the sight word by building the word on the cookie sheet. You might say something like this, “This word is can.” Point to each letter and say the letter name, “c – a – n, can.” You can then practice mixing it up and fixing it or removing a letter and having students find which one is missing.
Lastly, have students write the word from memory. If you see them making an error, correct them quickly. Since they are working on muscle memory, you don’t want them to write the word incorrectly.
Reading Strategy Focus
Determine which strategy you want your students to focus on. For pre-readers and beginning readers, focus on Pointer Pup, Eagle Eye, Lips the Fish, and Stretchy Snake. As students become stronger readers, they move onto Chunky Monkey, Flippy Dolphin, Skippy Frog, and Tryin Lion.
To learn more about the reading strategies and activities you can do to build those skills, check out this video.
Book Introduction
Introduce the story to your group. Have students complete a picture walk through the text. Depending on the reading level, you may want to read the first few pages together to establish the sentence pattern. For Pre-A and A groups, the first read may be done as a choral read.
Check out these digital leveled readers! I am so excited about them!!
After reading the text, talk about some things that were in the story. You could discuss any connections that were made, as well.
Word Work
The word work is planned out for each story. For beginning levels, students may practice sorting by beginning sound whereas, later in the year you may be practicing short and long vowels.
Sentence Work
Students unscramble the sentence and glue it correctly on their paper or in a notebook. They also illustrate the sentence. Then, students compose their own sentence using the same sentence pattern.
Guided Writing
Students respond to a prompt using the same sentence pattern as the book or show their comprehension of the text.
Take a look at all we have to offer in the world of guided reading!
- Guided Reading Bundle: Leveled Readers AA-G
- Guided Reading Bundle SET 2: Leveled Readers AA-G
- Traditional Tales Bundle: Leveled Readers AA-J
Do you have some questions about teaching guided reading in your classroom? Check out this blog post with some great information:
- Guided Reading: Become an Expert!
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Guided Reading — Hubbard's Cupboard
During shared reading in the kindergarten classroom, teachers guide the entire class through stories with a high level of support.
It is considered guided reading at this level. In order to continue meeting the needs of beginning or emergent readers, many kindergarten teachers are also incorporating modified aspects of the guided reading used in most first grade classrooms.
Guided reading has many of the same components as shared reading. However, it is conducted with a smaller number of students and focuses more on the individual reading needs of each child. During guided reading, teachers work with students at their instructional level to guide them in using the context, visual, and structure cues within stories to generate meaning. By using instructional level texts that gradually increase in difficulty, students apply strategies in context and feel successful! The end goal, as with any literacy component used in kindergarten, is for students to become confident, proficient readers who LOVE to read!
Guided reading in kindergarten can be conducted one on one or in small groups using books with predictable text, decodable text, books containing a large number of sight words, specially leveled books in a series, or trade books.
Teachers in a half day setting may meet with each guided reading group once or twice a week while full day kindergarten classrooms may be able to meet daily.
Below are some resources that should be helpful for starting guided reading in the kindergarten classroom...
Skills and Strategies to Focus On
Leveling Books
Running Records
Where to Find Leveled Sets of Emergent Readers
Blackline Masters for Non Leveled Emergent Readers
Take Home Book Boxes
More Guided Reading Resources and References
Skills and Strategies to Focus On:
These are just a few areas in which to help students with during guided reading...
- tracking print left to right and word by word
- one to one matching
- using picture cues
- applying letter and sound knowledge in context
- activating prior knowledge
- recognizing and reading sight words
- predicting and inferring
- attending to concepts of print (spacing, capitalization, punctuation)
- retelling a story with sequence and story elements (characters, setting, beginning, middle, end)
- self correcting
Reading Cues - P rompts and strategies for 'during reading' to help beginning readers
Leveling Books:
Reading Recovery, Fountas and Pinnell, and different publishers have varying leveling systems.
How do educators compare levels and use books from different sources? How do we level books that currently do not contain a level? Check out the informative links below!
Characteristics for Book Levels - The traits for each book level, as determined by Fountas & Pinnell, are described on page 5 of this PDF document published by CIERA. This is also a great place to refer to when leveling books and booklets that have not been previously leveled.
Scholastic Book Wizard - allows you to search for books by author, title, or keyword and provides information for each book on on interest and grade level
Running Records:
Running records are used to assess and record what cueing systems students are currently using while reading. It also helps to determine the difficulty level of the text they are reading and assists teachers in accurately matching students to instructional level materials.
Running Records - free, printable form
Assessment Tips - From Reading A-Z
Running Record Calculator - from the University of NC
Running Record Calculator
Where to Find Sets of Leveled Emergent Reader Books:
Printable Booklets - some free and some for a fee from Reading a-z
Creative Teaching Press - I especially like CTP's Learn to Read Series (predictable, engaging text for early readers)! The Sight Word Readers and Dr.
Maggie's Phonics Readers (decodable) are also good from CTP.
Scholastic Guided Reading
Wright Group
Take Home Readers - from Keep Books
Black Line Masters for Non Leveled Emergent Reader Booklets:
StarFall On Line Readers - on line decodable books and free booklets for teachers
Printable Booklets for Emergent Readers - booklets to correspond with story lessons, sight words, word families, and concepts (all here at Hubbard's Cupboard!)
Make Your Own Mini Books - printable booklets from DLTK
Single Page Stories for Kindergarten and 1st Graders - from Clark Ness
- 25 Emergent Reader Mini-Books (Grades K-1) by Maria Fleming
- Pocket Charts for Emergent Readers (Grades K-1) by Valerie Schifferdanoff
- 25 Science Mini-Books for Emergent Readers (Grades K-1) by Carol Pugliano-Martin
- 20 Sing-Along Mini-Books for Emergent Readers: Sweet and Simple Stories That Can Be Sung to the Tunes of Favorite Children's Songs by Maria Fleming
- 25 Holiday & Seasonal Emergent Reader Mini-Books (Grades K-1) by Maria Fleming
- Take Home Books: Math by Karen P.
Hall - Take Home Books: Science by Karen P. Hall
- Take Home Books: Social Studies by Karen P. Hall
- Take Home Books: Fun and Fantasy by Karen P. Hall
- Look, Look, I Wrote a Book: Reproducible Little Books for Emergent Readers by Linda Ball
Take Home Book Boxes:
Sample Home Poems and Booklets Letter - a PDF from Hubbard's Cupboard. I sent this letter home with the book boxes that each child made. The boxes were used to store copies of poems, reproducible booklets, and retelling booklets that we read many times in class and corresponded to our shared reading stories. You could send a similar note home with your students' book boxes and use the boxes to store their reproducible leveled readers. Boxes can be made from shoe boxes, dry laundry detergent boxes, bakery boxes, etc.! The goal of the take home book boxes is to provide/extend appropriate reading materials in the home and to encourage reading at home!
More Guided Reading Resources and References:
Making Guided Reading Work - a wonderful PDF article written and shared by Lori St.
Amand & Chris Binicki - explains in detail how to introduce literacy centers, how to implement guided reading, and guided reading concepts to focus on in a half day Kindergarten classroom
Guided Reading in First Grade -from eHow
Guided Reading Workshop- for elementary classroom teachers, info, printables, and video
- Guided Reading : Good First Teaching for All Children by Irene C. Fountas, Gay Su Pinnell
- Matching Books to Readers: Using Leveled Books in Guided Reading, K-3 by Gay Su Pinnell, Lois Bridges Bird, Irene C. Fountas
- Guided Reading: Making It Work (Grades K-3) by Mary Browning Schulman, Mary Browning Shulman, Carleen dacruz Payne
- Balancing Literacy: A Balanced Approach to Reading and Writing Instructions Gr. K-2 by Dr. Margaret Allen
- An Observation Survey Of Early Literacy Achievement by Marie M. Clay
- The Teacher's Guide to the Four Blocks by Patricia Cunningham, Dorothy Hall, & Cheryl Sigmon
Book for reading in kindergarten and at home: 4-5 years old: Handbook for kindergarten teachers and parents (Valentina Gerbova)
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This book is the second in a set of anthologies for reading to preschoolers. It is addressed to children of middle preschool age. The collection includes the best domestic and foreign works of children's literature, selected taking into account the needs and preferences of children 4-5 years old. . .The choice of works is made taking into account the requirements of preschool education and training programs. In the selection, the unconditional artistic value of the works and their accessibility to children of the appropriate age were dominant. .
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This book is the second in a set of anthologies for reading to preschoolers. It is addressed to children of middle preschool age. The collection includes the best domestic and foreign works of children's literature, selected taking into account the needs and preferences of children 4-5 years old.
. .The choice of works is made taking into account the requirements of preschool education and training programs. In the selection, the unconditional artistic value of the works and their accessibility to children of the appropriate age were dominant. .
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