Guided Reading – Grades 3-6 Diane Kennedy Instructional Coach Sioux Falls School District

Objectives of this Session To provide a quick overview of Reading Workshop in the intermediate grades To discuss the purpose/goals of guided reading To discuss how to assess and group your students for guided reading To provide you with interactive activities for before, during and after a guided reading lesson

Reading Workshop in Intermediate Language/word work Vocabulary Work Poetry Spelling Sorts Read Aloud Grammar Guided Reading Independent Reading Literature Circles

Reading Instruction Students must adjust their strategies as they read for different purposes or for new genres. Students need to learn how to organize their knowledge in order to summarize or draw inferences from increasingly difficult text. Explicit instruction is needed for most students and will make reading more meaningful. Reading is thinking!

Best Practice in Reading -Teacher reading good literature aloud to students -Time for independent reading -Children’s choice of their own reading material -Balance of easy and hard books -Exposing children to a wide and rich range of literature -Teacher modeling and discussing his/her own reading processes -Primary instruction emphasis on comprehension -Teaching reading as a process -Social, collaborative activities with much discussion and interaction -Grouping by interests or book choice -Silent reading followed by discussion -Teaching skills in the context of whole and meaningful literature -Writing before and after reading -Use of reading in the content area _Evaluation focused on holistic, higher order thinking processes -Measuring success of reading program by student’s reading habits, attitudes and comprehension -Students compelled to read aloud to whole class or reading group, being corrected and marked down for errors -Exclusive emphasis on whole class or reading group activities -Teacher selection of all reading materials for individuals and groups -Exclusively difficult “instructional level” books -Relying on selections in the basal -Teacher keeping his/her own reading tastes and habits private -Primary instructional emphasis on reading subskills such as phonics, word analysis and syllabication -Teaching reading as a single, one step act -Solitary seatwork -Grouping by reading level -Round robin reading -Teaching isolated skills in phonics workbooks/drills -Little or no chance to write -Segregation of reading to reading time -Evaluation focused on individual, low level subskills -Measuring success of reading program only by test scores

Guided Reading The aim of guided reading is to develop independent readers who question, consider alternatives, and make informed choices as they seek meaning Margaret Mooney

Purpose of Guided Reading To allow the teacher an opportunity to model how readers think, make personal connections to the text, and to go beyond the text. To bring together groups of students who are similar in their reading behavior. To provide specific and focused instruction To teach at the cutting edge of your student’s understanding To integrate content areas into reading To meet the instructional needs of your students!

Setting Up Your Classroom Classroom library that is labeled based on genre, author, theme, nonfiction, chapter, magazines, leveled Go to Beth Newingham’s website to print out labels and see more examples http://hill.troy.k12.mi.us/staff/bnewingham/myweb3/

http://registration.beavton.k12.or.us/lbdb/

Other Areas in the Room Meeting Area for Read Aloud Smart board area Writing Center with materials Areas for small groups to meet Technology Reference area Guided Reading area Highlighters, writing material, dry erase boards,

Grouping and Selecting Text Assess with DRA/STAR testing Provides level, as well as strengths/weaknesses Group for a variety of reasons: Fluency Interests Reading level Areas of concern Text structure Groups must be flexible!

Materials http://faculty.usiouxfalls.edu/arpeterson/ Basal Leveled readers provided with basal or in book room Magazine articles, such as National Geographic Newspaper articles Short passages Poetry Plays/Reader’s Theater http://www.teachingheart.net/readerstheater.htm http://www.smithsonianmag.com/ http://faculty.usiouxfalls.edu/arpeterson/ District library website

When we ignore the before stage of reading, rush students through the during reading stage, and focus all our attention on the after reading stage, we are working from the position of tester, not teacher. Real Reading, Real Writing: Content Area Strategies Donna Topping and Roberta McManus

Getting Your Community Of Readers Started Guiding Readers and Writers Grades 3-6 Authors: Fountas and Pinnell The First 20 Days *Selecting books (how readers choose books, making good book choices) *How to buzz about books. *Fiction vs. Nonfiction (different kinds of fiction/nonfiction) *Writing responses to your reading *Abandoning books

Before Reading Strategies Introduce vocabulary Predicting Making connections Questioning Level the playing ground, welcomes everyone into the conversation and learning in our classroom Activities: word sorts, anticipation guide, three columns, predict/view/prove

During Reading Strategies Monitor reading Inferring, making connections, synthesizing, predicting, questioning Activities: word sort, “Prove It” with highlighters, write around the text

After Reading Strategies Retelling/summarizing Answering questions/more questions Confirming predictions Activities: word sort, which graphic organizer goes with this text, anticipation guide, reader’s notebook, interactive conversation , carousel walk

What are the rest of the students doing while you meet with groups? Reader’s Notebook (see example) Talking with others about their reading Independent reading time Working on any work from Guided Reading group Computer research Literature Circles/book clubs

Home/school Connection Weekly reading logs specific genre basic Grade level portaportals http://www.sfinstructionalresources.wikispaces.net/

Websites http://hill.troy.k12.mi.us/staff/bnewingham/myweb3/ http://www.sfinstructionalresources.wikispaces.net

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