The Ultimate Guided Reading How-To Book: Building ... (ISBN 1569761523)

Created especially for classroom teachers:
Expertly written by experienced reading teacher and educational consultant Gail Saunders-Smith, The Ultimate Guided Reading How-To Book: Building Literacy Through Small-Group Instruction is an impressive and "user friendly" resource created especially for classroom teachers and offering them practical, effective strategies for coordinating their efforts to guide different levels of readers to higher literacy levels, implement a five-step guided reading process, coordinate literature workshops and literature circles, and more. An excellent supplementary resource for grade-school educators, The Ultimate Guided Reading How-To Book is an invaluable addition to reading skill development curriculum reference and resource collections.

The Ultimate Guided Reading How-To Book: Building Literacy through Small-Group Instruction:
What on earth happened here? I've never written a review before, but I was so upset by this book's publication that I have to write one this time. It is virtually impossible to read this book and to have any respect for its content with the absolutely amazing number of standard English writing errors. This book looks like a rough draft that hadn't been proofread/edited even once before it was published. I can't believe it's in print!!!! This book was purchased at a price commensurate with other books of its size. For that price, I would expect that the book would have been to a polished stage, and this was barely a first/second draft. How did this book get into print and offered on Amazon as a legitimate published book when it's merely a very, very rough draft??

Great for new teachers:
This book would be a great resource for aspiring and new teachers. Unfortunately, colleges don't provide enough depth in this area. The book is an easy read and is truly user-friendly. As an experienced teacher I did not find anything that I am not already doing except for the author's point on vocabulary. According to her, it should not be a part of the prereading. I still plan to work with vocabulary but I am going to try it in the postreading block. I did copy a chart for future reference before passing this book on. So, the book was not a complete waste. Whatever you do, do NOT pay full price for this book!! (Read below.) I smiled when I read other readers' distress with the editing of this book. I was very annoyed with this. I actually wrote to Zephyr about this. There are many mechanical and syntactical errors in the book. I, too, was offended that a professional text was so poorly handled. I told the publisher I would withhold judgment until hearing their position in the unlikely chance that there was a reasonable explanation. As of today, they have not responded. To me that speaks volumes. I will not be purchasing any Zephyr Press, Chicago Review Press, or Independent Publishers Group items in the future.

shipped in excellent condition:
This title has earned a deserved excellent reputation. However, the publishers dropped the ball on the proofreading. The introductory section is rife with typographical errors, which is inexcusable in any professionally published work. That this is a book about literacy presents a sad irony to the reader/user. Nevertheless I would recommend this title to all language arts teachers at all levels.

Complete, concise -- a great resource!.:
This is a great resource for any teacher. It covers all the basics of reading in a complete and concise manner. It condenses tons of information into an easy-to-read text. If you only have time to read one book on reading, this is definitely one to read.