Guided Reading December, 2016 Dina Spataro Holly Keller

What is Guided Reading? “Guided reading is a teaching approach designed to help individual students learn how to process a variety of increasingly challenging texts with understanding and fluency.” -Fountas and Pinnell

Rationale Purpose of guided reading is to meet the varying instructional needs of all students. Since the teacher has carefully selected a “just right” text, students are successful and can practice strategies good readers use. **Discuss how to group students.

Guided reading… IS… IS NOT… Small groups Whole group Leveled text From the basal reader Homogeneous groups Heterogeneous grouping Students are reading Teacher reading Flexible Inflexible grouping Essential component (before, during and after reading) Optional

Before reading: Picture walk, APK(Apply Prior Knowledge) or schema, thinking maps Identify genre Share reading response from previous day to connect learning Purpose for reading new text Preview/review vocabulary/sight words Prediction chart

During reading Reviewing mini-lessons from readers workshop, where teacher has modeled and thought aloud to teach the comprehension/strategy skill (Teach points) Practice the strategies with teacher support in an instructional leveled text Learning to read- reading to learn Reread text through: Choral Echo Partner Independent Paraphrase Summarize

After reading Independent reading Graphic organizer, sticky notes, Questioning, (Blooms) Summarize Discussion of text (Book Clubs) Fluency- rereading Written response Extend learning?

Guided Reading Groups & Supported Reading Guided Reading Groups & Strategy Groups Guided Reading Groups Students are grouped by reading level Teacher follows framework for guided reading Not round robin reading but rather all students are reading the same text at the same time, but reading at their own pace Strategy Groups Students in a strategy group are typically reading different levels of text, but you are teaching them all the same strategy. Teacher models the strategy in their own text. Students then read independently and practice the strategy. Teacher goes to each student and provides support as necessary. Spataro-skill set up Keller- book

What should I see happening in the reading classroom? Routines should be in place (After the first six weeks of school. Students should be working independently: reading to self/someone, working with words, listening to books, writing,… Small groups should be meeting with teacher at reading table for guided reading lessons. Teacher may be conducting running records or taking student performance notes. TA’s if available should be working with children!

Two Essential Elements Text provides right level of support and challenge for the students’ abilities. Text must be introduced in a way that gives children access to it while leaving some problem-solving to do.

Pre-A and Emergent Readers (levels A-C,D,E) Identification of letters and sounds Formation of letters Book and Print Awareness Introduction to sight words Decoding strategies

Early Readers: Levels F-J/K Monitor by checking the meaning of the story and scanning the word for a visual match. Problem-solve new words using a variety of strategies. Reread at difficulty to access meaning and structure. Read for fluency, phrasing and expression. Make predictions Remember and retell what they have read. Read and write a large bank of sight words. Apply phonetic principles, such as blends, vowel combinations, silent e rule, and endings, in both reading and writing.

Guided Reading Questions (Group discussion) How do I fit all the parts of a Guided Reading lesson into 20-30 minutes? How do I keep the other students successfully engaged while I’m teaching a guided reading group? Will my students stay in the same guided reading group all year? How often should I move them? Why do the children all read at once instead of taking turns (“round robin”)?

Any questions? Holly Keller holly_keller@iss.k12.nc.us Dina Spataro dinamarie_spataro@iss.k12.nc.us Book Titles: The Art of Teaching Reading by: Lucy Calkins Jan Richardson Guided Reading books and video sets Reading Strategies Book by: Jennifer Serravallo *Guided Reading Indicator packets