What Are You Grouping For?, Grades 3-8 (WEB PDF) von Julie T. Wright

This book explains the five teacher moves that work together to support students′ reading independence through small group learning - kidwatching, pivoting, assessing, curating, and planning. 

Foreword by Mary Howard
Acknowledgments
Preface
CHAPTER 1. A New Way of Thinking About Small Group Learning Experiences (because being up close to students is what drives discovery)
Small Group Instruction Redefined
The Five Teacher Moves
Combating the Challenges So You Can Do the Five Moves
One Last Thing
CHAPTER 2. The Launch (because who doesn’t need beginning-of-the-year strategies)
Small Groups Defined
Two Essential Questions This Chapter Helps You Answer
Beliefs
Ideas for the First Days of School
Listening In and Joining In
A Few Weeks Into the School Year
One Last Thing
CHAPTER 3. Scheduling (because schedules are key for the launch and beyond)
Reading Workshop: Daily Plans for Groups
Getting Started, Quick Groups
Groups for First Days/Weeks of School
Groups That Might Meet Across the Year
Small Group Foundational Q&A
One Last Thing
CHAPTER 4. Kidwatching 2.0 (because it’s all about orient, notice, take stock, and inquire)
Two Essential Questions This Chapter Helps You Answer
Beliefs
Our Kidwatching 2.0 Protocol
Tips for Getting Started
Using Your Notes to Form Small Groups
Four-Step Process for Going From Kidwatching to Small Group
Example of Small Group Work Based on Kidwatching Data
One Last Thing
CHAPTER 5. Pivoting Into Flexible Groups (because it’s the teacher moves that keep readers moving forward)
Two Essential Questions This Chapter Helps You Answer
Beliefs
How This Chapter Is Organized
The List of Reasons for Pivoting
The Teacher’s Role
Types of Groups to Pivot Into and Out Of
Timing Is Everything: More About the Duration of Groups
Language for Joining In
Troubleshooting
One Last Thing
CHAPTER 6. Assessing Student Work (because looking at our readers’ work lifts their strategies, skills, and thinking)
Two Essential Questions This Chapter Helps You Answer
Beliefs
Assessing With Learner-Centered Benchmarks
What to Look At
How to Sort Student Work
Planning a Focus for Instruction and Putting It Into Action
More Examples of How to Use Work to Inform Grouping Decisions
One Last Thing
CHAPTER 7. Curating (because selecting the right texts inspires readers to be connoisseurs)
Two Essential Questions This Chapter Helps You Answer
Beliefs
Teachers and Students as Curators
Teachers as Curators
Steps for Curating
Zooming In on Step 2: Curate and Select
Zooming In on Step 3: Decide
Steps 4–7: Spark, Read and Construct Meaning, and Reflect
Students as Curators
Exemplars of Students as Curators
One Last Thing
CHAPTER 8. Unit Planning (because small groups are best anchored in a harbor of big ideas)
Two Essential Questions Chapters Eight and Nine Help You Answer
Beliefs
Planning: The Reality Show
Six Surefire Steps
One Last Thing
CHAPTER 9. Weekly and Daily Planning (because weekly and daily plans chart the course for small group experiences)
Creating a Calendar for Weekly and Daily Lesson Planning
Zooming In on Step 5: Make Plans for Small Group Learning Opportunities
Some Popular, Proven Models to Guide You
Barry’s Planning Process for Hosting Two Groups
Julie’s One-Week Plan of Lessons for Launching a Unit
Student-Driven Planning
Putting It Into Practice: Examples From Our Classrooms
One Last Thing
Conclusion
Appendix: Ready-to-Copy Teacher and Student Reflection/Planning Pages
References and Further Reading
Index
About the Authors