Teaching reading can be a complicated task.
Unleash the power of Guided Readers by implementing best practices in guided reading instruction using our professionally leveled texts, rigorous and standards-based lesson plans and resources, and address 21st century skills using our easy-to-use digital interactive reader to engage students and open doorways to learning.
Guided Readers is the most effective online guided reading program to help build and strengthen students’ literacy skills in phonics, vocabulary, comprehension, fluency, and guided writing.
Professionally Leveled Books
Print & Teach Lesson Plans
Interactive Digital Experience
Introducing Guided Readers
Guided Readers is a comprehensive guided reading program that fosters true learning through small group instruction and empowers teachers by providing them with effective, streamlined lesson plans based on best practices in literacy instruction.
All Books are Professionally Leveled by Fountas & Pinnell and Lexile.com
With hundreds of leveled readers, rigorous lesson plans and word work, Guided Readers unlocks creativity, confidence, and focus so that your students can succeed.
Tools to Empower Teachers
Consistent and streamlined differentiated lesson plans that take out the guesswork of how to teach and what to teach.
Address 21st Century Literacy Skills
The Digital Interactive Reader helps students with their decoding and comprehension skills as they listen to stories being read aloud, record the story and listen back to their own reading, and check their comprehension.
Designed for Student Success
Personalized Learning to IMPROVE STUDENT OUTCOMES.
Differentiation for Varying Reading Skills
Differentiation for students is of paramount importance to help children grow from learning to read to children who are READING TO LEARN.
Engaging, Effective, and Differentiated Learning at your fingertips!
Teaching Tools
- Instructional tri-folds for teaching specific skills/strategies
- Reading Strategies Instruction Tri-fold
- Sight Word & Vocabulary Instruction Tri-fold
- Making Words Instruction Tri-fold (Make-Its)
- Analogy Charts Instruction Tri-fold (Match-Its)
- Sound Boxes Instruction Tri-fold (Box-Its)
- Sound Sorts Instruction Tri-fold (Sort-Its)
- Strategy Fans for student use and teacher modeling
- Sight Word cards for each lesson
Printable Resources
- Books leveled by F &P and Lexile
- Single-sided leveled readers
- Double-sided leveled readers
- Lesson plans
- Sight Words
- Text-Dependent Questions
- Guided Writing Activity
- Running Record Assessments (coming soon)
- Google Classroom options available
- Workmats for Word Work
- Analogies
- Making Words
- Sound Boxes
- Sound Sorts
- Text-Dependent Questions
- Thinking About, Within, & Beyond the Text
Interactive Digital Reader
- Teacher Portal for student logins and data
- Picture Passwords for easy student logins
- Engaging leveled readers with captivating illustrations/photographs
- Students can read the story independently
- Students can listen to the story as the words are highlighted
- Students can record the story aloud and listen back to their reading
- Students can take a comprehension quiz based on the story
- Student quiz grades and oral recordings saved in the Teacher’s Portal
PROGRAM PLANS
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Stop wasting time finding resources for your classroom. Get full access to all our guided reading resources for one low price. Choose the plan that works best for your budget & classroom!
Seed Plan
Printables Plan
- printable leveled readers (all levels)
- lesson plans
- comprehension resources
- word worked resources
- instructional materials
- Google Classroom options
Sprout Plan
Digital Interactive Reader
- digital leveled readers (all levels)
- students listen to the story while words are highlighted
- students record their reading & listen back
- students take comp quiz
- teacher & student PORTAL (Great for centers & 1-1 classrooms)
Bloom Plan
Seed Plan + Sprout Plan
Includes everything in
Seed & Sprout Plan
Quickly leverage the Guided Readers program with access to both the digital interactive reader and printable plan!
School District Purchase Orders
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FAQ's
Guided Readers has been developed by a veteran classroom teacher with more than 23-years of experience in reading instruction, to provide you with the most effective and rigorous resources to help you teach your students to become fluent, confident readers AND love to read in the process.
Our fiction books are beautifully illustrated by professional illustrators and our nonfiction books are created using the highest-quality and eye-catching photographs you can find!
Not only that, but ALL of our leveled readers are professionally leveled through our partnership with Fountas & Pinnell and Lexile.com
You won’t find any boring theories or ideas that don’t actually work in practice. This program is based on best practices in guided reading instruction and literacy development! Implementing Guided Readers in your classroom will ensure exponential growth in your students’ reading skills (Results will vary).
YES! Guided Readers will help you reach your Emerging Readers to your Fluent Readers. Currently, Guided Readers has texts/resources for Guided Reading Levels A – Q.
Levels R-Z will be added to the site over the next few months.
Each and every week, at least 20 new books and corresponding resources will be added to your Library Bookshelf.
Guided Readers is a brand-new membership site that focuses SOLEY on helping teachers instruct their students during guided reading instructional groups. Guided Readers provides printable leveled readers, lesson plans, and resources for teachers to download, print, and be ready to teach their students HOW to read!
If you are a long-term member of Simply Skilled Teaching Members Club (at least two years), you will see many of the books and materials you currently have. However, at least 50 NEW guided reading books will be added to the site every month. We will not be adding these resources to SST Members Club. Additionally, SST Members Club does not have access to our Digital Interactive Reader.
The resources on Guided Readers WILL NOT be accessible in my Teachers Pay Teachers shop.
Teachers have consistently told us that getting a grip on guided reading instruction felt overwhelming and difficult — and Guided Readers is here to give you a framework and a method to the madness that causes so many teachers to feel stressed out and majorly overwhelmed during their reading block. This program gives you the step-by-step system you need to create a rigorous, consistent plan of action to get your students reading with confidence.
YES! Guided Readers is the perfect companion to any curriculum, and will assist you in following state standards with the rigorous, effective and streamlined approach you’ll learn to teaching guided reading.
What you’ll gain access to in Guided Readers is a consistent, streamlined framework for making guided reading work for you, no matter which curriculum or teaching material you’re already using.
CANCELLING YOUR MEMBERSHIP
You have 3 days to peruse the site, print out a few resources, and use the Digital Interactive Reader to see what is offered on Guided Readers. If after 3 days you feel that it is not a good fit for you, you may ask for a refund and cancel your membership. However, if you DOWNLOAD 3 or More resources from the site, you will NOT BE ELIGIBLE for a refund due to the instant and irrevocable access you gain to the materials.
Cancellations are immediate and you will lose all access to all of the resources in Guided Readers.
RENEWING YOUR MEMBERSHIP
All memberships will renew automatically unless you go into your account settings and cancel your subscription.
Want to hear the BEST PART? When you join, you are GRANDFATHERED IN to the price you joined at! So, your annual membership fee will never increase even when the price of the membership increases as long as you are a current member!
YES! Absolutely! We would LOVE to have you in our Guided Readers Teaching Community! Please CLICK HERE to request to join!