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.

I wish I could give this 3.5/5 stars. This Ready to Go Guided Reading Inference set had great intentions and there are many things that I love about it. However, there are some things that I dislike too. I am going to get straight into the pros and cons. Pros: -The set comes as a book that is then disassembled into small laminated books/ pamphlets for the students. -There are three different reading levels (2 articles each) for the grade range contained within the set. -It includes a discussion guide with a variety of questions for each article. -It also contains a Guided Reading Model graphic organizer that you could make copies of for the students to fill out. It has three bullets for predictions, vocabulary, questions and opinions. -The texts are colorful and contain pictures. -The texts are high interest articles with a general theme. Cons: -some of my laminated texts had tears, others tore a little as I tore them out of the book. -Text size is SMALL. My students with dyslexia and reading problems would not be able to read this. -Text is BUSY. With all of the little boxes of information everywhere many of my students would have a hard time focusing on the particular section we were trying to read together. -There is too much text for one small group reading session. With my students it would probably take about 4 sessions to cover all the material. By then, they would have a hard time recalling the first story. I wish I could tear the books down into individual pages. The center of the book is across two pages, so that wouldn't work there. -Vocabulary is in the center of the book, but is needed for text on the first page. I really like the idea of these guided reading texts. The thought is good, the execution is just off. I work with ESE students (students who are disabled) and I was thinking about using these with my 7th graders. They may be too much though and the text is too small. I am going to try to find a way to use them regardless. I like the idea, but maybe they would have been better as one sheet guided text with larger font and cleaner design. I don't recommend them if you have any ESE or ESOL students.

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 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.

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.

Professional note: I'm an elementary reading (and math) specialist who works with grads K-5. I selected this along with others from this guided reading series. I've stuck with intermediate readers because in the 3 and especially 4&5 grades, the students I support CAN read decently, but demonstrating comprehension through organized oral answers or use of quick graphic organizers is still a heavy task. In this set I find the content aligns student interest more than the curriculum we use. I"m fine with this because it's the SKILL I'm needing broader resources for. I particularly like the inferences focus because many of my students seem 'paralyzed' when it comes to predicting based on the information they've gathered. They are more concerned with being 'right' than make a good guess. The students like the color and organization of the materials; it appeals to the media-savvy minds they're developing. Having a visual variety of texts is also a good tool for practice identifying important or elaborative information beyond just interesting details. I find with 4th and 5th grade, they're looking for more and richer information about the topics they're reading about and these readers provide that at a variety of levels. Final note, though these are 'leveled', most readers that are qualified this way tend to have not only less complicated vocabulary, but also fewer words and features. I find this (as with others in this series) tend to thin out the advance language piece more than reduce overall word count. Overall, happy to add this to my ever-expanding supplemental library.

I had a 1st grader who was struggling with comprehension and reading so I was happy to try out three different Ready to Go Guided Reading sets with him. (I also had a 4th grader who was interested in reading along - we got three sets of 5th and 6th grade as well to try). We tried the sets over the course of several months. Each set has multiple pull out fold up "books" (readers that are on a normal sized page that is laminated and in full color). We read through some together and I let him read on his own. The older child whipped through his books very quickly and had no problems with comprehension, inferring, and summarizing themes. The younger one struggled a little and needed help at times. Themes were easier to connect for them both than inferring and comprehension. But we worked though them all. There is a section at the end that guides you for evaluation to see if improvement is made. In my opinion, improvement wasn't better than simply reading other books and asking questions afterward. There is one place that these were surprisingly disappointing: content was not interesting to either child. They read through with gusto at first, but they didn't care to continue with additional readers. When I gave them the choice of topics (by showing them the options) they were reluctant to continue with the readers at all. They just weren't interested. Especially the younger reader. He didn't go for "dollars and cents" or "using our senses" and so on. Animals can be cool to young boys, but after the spiders and the bears readers in a couple of the modules, they didn't find other animals to engage with. Where were topics about space, planets, science, video games or stories with heroes? In my opinion, kids - and especially boys - are interested in comic books, survival stories, video games and space ships. I've had better luck getting them to read with books that have topics they actually like. Overall, any tool that engages and encourages reading is a plus. And my testing was only with two young boys, so I don't know if this is representative of other ages or girls. But I can't enthusiastically recommend these sets. If they had topics that engaged readers a little better I'd love them.

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.