Guided Reading Lesson Plan & Small Group Templates
Plan and run small-group reading on one-page blackline templates: a lesson plan for one group with before, during and after reading, word work and a student notes list; a week at a glance for 3–6 groups; anecdotal notes boxes; a running record form with accuracy and self-correction formulas; and a rotation board for your stations. Type your student and group names to print them on the page.
Every template fills one letter page in black and white. The lesson plan prints six reading prompts to tick off; the rotation board gives each group a different starting station, one rotation per station.
Guided Reading Lesson Plan
Group
Level (A–Z)
Book
Focus skill
Before reading
Book introductionSet the scene, key idea
New vocabularyWords to preview
During reading
PromptsTick the ones you use
- Look for a part you know.
- Find a chunk you know.
- What did you notice?
- Does that make sense?
- Read the whole phrase together.
- How does the character feel?
ObservationsWho needed what?
After reading
DiscussionQuestions to talk about
Teaching pointOne thing to model
Practice
Word workSounds, chunks, sight words
WritingResponse or dictation
StudentNotes