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What is the
Guided Reading Manual?
This Santillana Spotlight on English Guided Reading Manual is designed to
help students of all backgrounds and levels develop essential reading skills,
such as decoding and comprehension, as well as to practice and reinforce
listening, speaking, writing, and viewing skills. The manuals contain
strategies to teach phonics and grammar, which are integral elements
of a Balanced Literacy program.
Utilizing the Spotlight Thematic Library leveled readers, teachers are
able to choose from a variety of levels and themes to accommodate the
literacy needs of all their students. The readers serve as excellent tools to
teach basic reading skills of developing readers and more advanced skills
with increasingly challenging texts to more fluent readers.
How does it work?
The manual is organized into eight levels, with each level covering eight weeks.
Each week is divided into five days of work and covers one reader.
• Day 1:
Present the reader, the theme, frontload vocabulary, and make predictions.
• Day 2:
Focus on the receptive skills of listening and reading while engaging in
echo reading and guided reading.
• Day 3:
Focus on phonics practice and vocabulary development strategies
• Day 4:
Carry out activities involving grammar.
• Day 5:
Focus on the productive skills of speaking and writing. The culminating
activity involves a writing prompt and the writing process.