Collective Commitments

Jan Richardson Guided Reading Lesson Plan

Below is a list of our district collective commitments, based on the recent Jan Richardson training.
As part of this implementation, your work will be supported by the instructional coach, and I will
plan to visit classrooms beginning this week to see how it's going. Please review and let me know if you have any questions.

Collective Commitments

• Provide letter tracing and small group instruction for Pre-A learners and guided reading for readers at the Emergent, Early, Transitional and Fluent levels.

• Use our PLCs to plan guided reading and commit to using student data to drive the process. Below are the Jan Richardson resources to use to analyze student data.

Pre-A lesson:  Letter/Sound Checklist (306)
Emergent Lesson:  Assessment Summary (61)
Early Lesson:  Assessment Summary (114)
Transitional lesson:  Assessment Summary (168)
Fluent lesson:  Assessment Summary Assessment Summary (229)

• Engage students in meaningful literacy activities when not involved in guided reading. Think authentic reading and writing yes, worksheets no.  
• Instructional coaching provided to each classroom teacher, based on your need and your coaching goal. This includes lesson planning meeting prior to teaching, observing the coach teach a lesson (or you teach and Lori observes), coach observers you teach and a debriefing meeting with you and the coach.
• In each regular education classroom (K-5) at least one guided reading group should be done with fidelity, beginning no later than October 29th, following all of the Jan Richardson components. This builds the foundation for a guaranteed and viable guided reading curriculum.
• Implementation will be supported through PD, the PLC process, coaching support and classroom walk-throughs.