Book excerpt: Guided Reading: Infer for first and second grades enhances lesson plans with six sets each of six nonfiction readers. There are 36 readers— two each for below-, on-, and above-level student readers. This teacher resource book helps engage students as they learn about spiders, hibernation, and more. Ready to Go Guided Reading: Infer offers the essentials for an effective, comprehensive guided reading program for first and second grades. This book includes: -leveled readers that cover high-interest topics -prompts to encourage students to work with the text and text features -discussion guides -graphic organizers and an observation sheet The readers are separated into three readability levels and designed to keep students’ attention. Various callout boxes direct students to apply guided reading strategies to the texts, such as scanning for meaning or word work. Each reader concludes with a writing prompt. The 12-book Ready to Go: Guided Reading series for grades 1–6 includes everything you need for your guided reading group. Each 80-page book is essentially a guided reading set, containing 36 total readers, six discussion guides, and three reproducible pages. Each grade span includes four books, focusing on the following reading comprehension strategies: -Infer -Connect -Question -Summarize The readers contain short nonfiction texts and text features such as callout boxes, photographs, charts, and maps.