Dr. Janet Richardson, educational authority

Session Descriptions
 

Guided Writing: Teaching with Power and Purpose (K-3)

Guided writing is a small group approach to writing instruction that targets a specific skill or strategy students need to learn. Topics include analyzing writing samples to identify a focus strategy, creating powerful minilessons, and providing appropriate scaffolds and prompts that help accelerate students.

The "X-celeration Factor" in Guided Reading

How can we help accelerate struggling readers? This session presents the issues and teaching decisions that have the greatest impact on acceleration at all stages of reading development. Topics include using assessments to group students and select a focus, choosing books that support the focus strategy, and prompting students to use strategies appropriate for each reading stage. Learn X-cellent guided reading tips that will X-cite your students and X-celerate their reading!

Biography

Dr. Richardson is a literacy expert who travels throughout the United States training teachers and conducting classroom demonstrations on guided reading. A former classroom teacher (she has taught in every grade, K-12), reading specialist, Reading Recovery teacher leader, and staff developer, Richardson is well known for her hands-on approach. She has authored, The Next Step in Guided Reading: Focused Assessments and Targeted Lessons for Helping Every Student Become a Better Reader (Scholastic), as well as an audio resource entitled Moving Up in Guided Reading.

Dr. Richardson has identified the essential components of an effective guided reading lesson, including targeted assessments, data analysis that pinpoints specific strategies students need, and the use of guided writing to support the reading process. She provides detailed lessons for readers at all levels and stages from emergent through proficient. Her goal is teacher instruction that motivates, engages, and accelerates all readers from emergent to fluent.