1. Guided Reading December, 2016
Dina Spataro
Holly Keller

2. 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

3. 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.

4. 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

5. 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

6. 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

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

8. 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

9. 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!

10. 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.

11. 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

12. 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.

13. Guided Reading Questions (Group discussion)
How do I fit all the parts of a Guided Reading lesson into 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”)?

14. Any questions? Holly Keller holly_keller@iss.k12.nc.us Dina Spataro
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