This book will be your guide as you support middle-grade students who are reading two or more years below grade level. The lessons enlarge students' vocabulary and background knowledge and engage them in meaningful discussions and writing about their reading. As their reading skills and desire to read increase, you'll watch your students complete more independent reading and ramp up their reading volume-the practice they need to improve! Guided Practice for Reading Growth provides all you need to get started. Laura Robb and children's author David L. Harrison have collaborated to design twenty-four powerful reading lessons using original poems and short texts that interest your students and encourage them to think deeply. The opening chapters offer background knowledge for the lessons as well as teaching tips. Then, the bulk of this book consists of the guided practice lessons-with full texts and suggested videos provided. Guided practice lessons can move developing readers forward by building self-confidence and the expertise needed to read for learning and for pleasure. This unique book shows you how to, Build students' background knowledge by watching and discussing videos, Use the poems and short texts to improve reading and to improve fluency through practice and performance, Invite students to write about their reading and increase comprehension and recall, Ask partners to discuss before, during, and after reading as meaningful talk expands students' analytical thinking and understanding, Design your own lessons for students with extra texts by David L. Harrison provided in the appendix, Develop students' self-confidence and the reading skills they require to become lifelong, joyful readers