Weakley Readers
Small Group Reading

needhamm@k12tn.net
Model We Use:
Small Group Reading Instruction: A Differentiated Teaching Model for 
Beginning and Struggling Readers
Dr. Beverly Tyner  www.smallgroupreading.com

Flexible Grouping
Students work in flexible groups of six or fewer students per 
instructor
Classroom teachers, educational assistants, special education 
teachers, & special teachers teach in the program	
45 minute groups for 1st/2nd students
30 minute groups for kindergarten
Instruction is in addition to regular classroom/ basal instruction

Parent Involvement
Students have a leveled reader to read each night at home and parents 
sign a log page recording books read.

Assessment
Rigby's Benchmark 1 and Benchmark 2 Running Record Kits  

DIBELS testing (Dynamic Indicators of Basic Early Literacy Skills) 
administered 3 times per year to students in K-2  
http://dibels.uoregon.edu

Leveled Readers
We use the Reading Recovery Leveling System (Book Levels 1-30)
Books are purchased in sets of six books with a mixture of Fiction 
& 
Non-fiction.
Publishers I like to use: Rigby,  Sundance, Newbridge, Wright Group, 
Dominie

5 Part Lesson
1. Familiar Read/ Re-reading		4. Sentence Dictation
2. Word Bank				5. New Read
3. Word Study

Other Good Sources
Guided Reading (Fountas & Pinnell)
Word Matters (Fountas & Pinnell)
Reading Recovery: A Guidebook for Teachers in Training  (Clay)