Carson Dellosa Ready to Go: Infer Guided Reading Set, Grades 5-6 Resource Book With 36 Nonfiction Leveled Readers, Discussion Guides, Prompts, and More

These are a nice classroom set for a Reading Center. Each book contains 6 sets of the same story, all are a printed on nice hard paper that is coated so the children can use dry erase markers to underline or circle key points that can be easily wiped away. For the teacher, or a parent volunteer, it comes with a discussion guide to help guide the reading and create thoughtful conversations. It also comes with an observation sheet that can also be used with dry erase markers, which may be more helpful for parent volunteers to understand what the goals are even if they don’t fill it out for every student or for each lesson. The students also have a sheet they can use to fill out, it only comes with 1 so the kids can work as a group with the one sheet or you would have to photocopy it and laminate it yourself if you each child to have one to fill out on their own. Over all I think these are a great set for guided classroom reading. Working as a group and talking about the articles/stories I think help children solidify their reading skills. They get teacher/parent and fellow student input and can compare and contrast ideas and theories. They may work in a home school situation as well, but you would have lots of extra little books.

When I was going to elementary school, there was a reading corner where they had SRA readers that had different levels of reading that allowed the students to read at their own level and at their own pace. I loved them. I loved seeing my own progress and having control over what I would choose to read next. These guided readers remind me of those. There are six copies six readers, a simple one page that folds over into a colorful card full of information and pictures. Given that these are more like overloaded cards than books, they do offer a lot of information. Still, these visually seem to be pandering to reluctant readers. I picked these up for my granddaughter (because at the time the listing said nothing about these being for teachers) and at first I was excited . . . until I realized how very short the content is. She's about to finish the seventh Harry Potter book and 4 cluttered pages of information isn't exactly going to challenge her. She's in 3rd grade and I had hoped these would be mature enough to excite her. Unfortunately, they are not. The listing has been upgraded to say that these are for teachers and there is some content for the teachers to assess the student's reading comprehension, including a matrix to make the assessing easier. There is a sheet that can be photocopied for the students to use for predicting, reflecting, etc. but how much predicting can one do with four pages? Again, I say my granddaughter is in 3rd grade and reading Harry Potter, telling me what she thinks will happen next, who will live or die, and debating whether Severus Snape is good or evil. So yeah, these are great if you have a reader who would find an actual book intimidating and a white page with black print on it overwhelming but for those seeking reading support for an eager reader I think it's safe to say I would pass on these altogether. Fortunately they will not be wasted. I'm going to give them to a friend of mine who is an elementary school teacher. I'm sure she'll find use for them. I'm just glad the listing has been updated to explain this is a teacher resource. Unfortunately too little too late for me.

I don't care for how these are set up. The layout and fonts are too busy and distracting. The material is interesting but basic for this age group.

I ordered the set of Ready to Go Guided Reading books Grades 1 thru 6 for my granddaughter who's the newest member of our family to start reading. Even though she's not in fifth grade yet, she's pretty bright and will be capable to read during the summers and advance her reading skills. I ordered this series of books because they look like wonderful reading material and not boring. Hopefully she'll keep on loving reading and finish this entire series during her summer months to keep reading skills sharp. She loves to read to me, however, I'm moving out of state and will have to rely on her older sisters to supervise her reading lessons.

Carson Dellosa (a publisher)'s Ready to Go Guided Reading for grades 5 - 6 is a Complete Guided Reading Set of 6 copies of leveled readers. So the total included is 36 sets. They are correlated to the current state standards. It is nonfiction 3 reading level and discussion guides to support the readers. The topics are: Wonderful wonders, Radical Roller Coaster, Hail to the Chief, The Heat is on, Incredible Cacti, and Animal Coloration. There are also discussion guides for each topic, a guided reading model, my Inferences section, and guided reading observation sheets. The readers and other pages are all write on / wipe away surfaces and made of durable card stock. The readers are interesting and engaging.