Book excerpt: Improve your guided reading lesson plans with Guided Reading: Infer for grades five and six. This reading comprehension book includes 36 leveled readers—six sets of two each for below-, on-, and above-level student readers—and it also features charts, photos, and maps. Ready to Go Guided Reading: Infer makes it easy for you to create a comprehensive guided reading program by offering everything you need to help students at various reading levels. This small group reading resource book contains: -leveled readers with intriguing topics -discussion guides -prompts to encourage students to work with the text and text features -graphic organizers and an observation sheet The readers are separated by below-, on-, and above-level comprehension skills and feature callout boxes to direct students to apply guided reading strategies to the texts. Each nonfiction text addresses fascinating topics and includes a writing prompt so students can show what they know. The 12-book Ready to Go: Guided Reading series for grades 1–6 is designed to help you with guided reading organization. Each 80-page book is a guided reading set, complete with six discussion guides and three reproducible pages. Four books are included in each grade span, focusing on the essential reading comprehension strategies: -Infer -Connect -Question -Summarize Each nonfiction reader contains short nonfiction texts, callout boxes, photographs, charts, and maps.