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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Although to be clear, this takes me about 5-6 hours every Sunday to write my guided reading plans. This is for 24 plans though for six different reading groups. [/quote]

I must be missing something.

You make these plans for 6 different reading groups.   Some are lower and some are higher.

You can't reuse the higher ones, for the lower reading groups, when they reach that level?

Say your higher kids are reading "The Big Fluffy Giant" book.  You write detailed lesson plans for "The Big Fluffy Giant" book.

When your lower group reaches that level in March, you can't just reuse the guided reading plan for "The Big Fluffy Giant" book, for those kids?

Next year, your 1st graders will be so different, that none of them will be reading "The Big Fluffy Giant"?

In three years, all the kids will be so different and will have such different phonics needs (because phonics changes so much each year) that none of them will need to learn to read "The Big Fluffy Giant"?

You really need to do all this work?[/quote]

Yes, for guided reading, you do have to write totally different plans for every year for every group.  Here's an example.  So, I have 6 reading groups.  Year 1, my low group is reading a level B book.  That group is really struggling with sight words.  So I do sight word instruction with them.  But year two, my low group is at a level A.  Those kids need to work on using the first letter and the picture to figure out the words.  Year 3, my low group is at a B again.  I can re-use the plans from 2 years ago, right?  Not a chance.  Because this group doesn't need much sight word work.  This group needs sounding out and blending work.  And add to that, this year I have a kid in the group who masturbates while in the group.  I'm not being crass.  This has actually happened to me in a first grade room.  Or maybe I have the kid who howls like a wolf the whole time unless I sit next to him with my hand on his shoulder.  Or maybe I have the kid who has extreme adhd and now needs his own group.  [/quote]

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