Small Group Guided Reading

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Small Group Guided Reading

• Strategies To Strengthen
• All Students
• Reading Skills

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In any guided reading session, the teacher needs
to know what knowledge and understanding each
child will bring to the reading and what supports
or assistance will be necessary to ensure that
the students can read the text successfully.
Margaret Mooney
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What is this thing called Guided Reading ?

• What I know
• What I wonder?

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Thinking About Our Readers

1. Do you have any proficient readers in your class?
   Who?
2. How do you know he/she is a proficient reader?
3. Name some things proficient readers do when they
   read.

• 4. Name some things struggling readers do when
  they are reading.
• 5. What does a proficient reader need for
  instruction? A struggling reader?

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Optimal Learning Model
Teacher Does/Students Watch Step 1 Modeling of Strategy Teacher Does/Students Help Step 2 Apprenticeship of Use
Students Do/Teacher Helps Step 3 Scaffolding Strategy Use Students Do/Teacher Watches Step 4 Independent Use
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Components of A Comprehensive Reading Program

• Read Aloud and Discussion
• Shared Reading
• Guided Reading
• Independent Reading
• Participation in Text Discussion Groups

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Optimal Learning Model
Teacher Does/Students Watch Step 1 Modeling of Strategy Read Aloud Teacher Does/Students Help Step 2 Apprenticeship of Use Discussion/Shared Reading
Students Do/Teacher Helps Step 3 Scaffolding Strategy Use Guided Reading Students Do/Teacher Watches Step 4 Independent Use Independent/ Text Discussion Groups
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How Does this Fit into Four Blocks?
Shared/Guided Reading Writing
Self-Selected Reading Working with Words
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Components of A Comprehensive Reading Program

• Guided reading is most successful when it is
  one component of a comprehensive reading program.
• Watch the tape and think about the conditions
  that maximize guided reading success.

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Assessments That InformInstruction and Grouping

• What are you currently using to assess your
  students literacy growth and learning needs?
• -Informal Observations
• -Anecdotal Notes
• -Checklists
• -Running Records/BRI
• -TAKS

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Materials For Small GroupGuided Reading

• Leveled Texts
• Look at the texts from different levels. What do
  you notice about the characteristics of the
  different levels?
• Think about your campus and the resources that
  are available.

Chapter 14, Guiding Readers and Writers, Fountas
and Pinnell
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What are the other kids doing?

• Brainstorm with your
• group meaningful
• activities for the rest
• of the class.
• Response journals
• Literacy Stations
• Literature Study

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Watching Guided Reading At Work

• As you watch the video, observe how the
  different parts of the lesson combine to
  strengthen students reading skills.
• Lesson Introduction
• Guiding Students Reading
• Lesson Close

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Read, Reflect and Discuss

• Guided Reading in the Intermediate Grades
  Questions and Answers
• Guided Reading, an article from The California
  Reader

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Introducing The Lesson

• Read The Lesson Introduction
• View the Lesson Introduction
• Reflect on the content

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Activity Introducing The Lesson

• Before planning the
• introduction
• Choose a reading skill/strategy
• Choose a leveled text

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Activity Introducing The Lesson

• Prepare a lesson introduction
• Read the text
• Design an introduction that will
• -support successful reading
• -introduce the reading/skill focus for
• the lesson
• Jot notes in the introduction section of
• The Guided Reading Lesson Plan

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Guiding Students Reading

• Read
• View
• Reflect

The Heart of the Guided Reading Lesson
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ActivityGuiding Students Reading

• You need Text and the Guided Reading
• Lesson Plan
• You will work on
• Directions to students
• Teaching behaviors

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ActivityGuiding Students Reading

• Use your Guided Reading Lesson Plan to write
  notes in the section, Reading the Text.
• Discuss with your group, how the teacher would
• Listen in on students reading
• Work on the lesson focus
• Spot-check comprehension
• Address immediate reading needs

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Extending Students Thinking After Reading

• The Lesson Close
• Watch the tape and reflect on the content.

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Activity Extending Students Thinking After
Reading

• You need Text and Guided Reading
• Lesson Plan
• Create a lesson close
• Jot notes in section, Closing Strategy Work,
  Discussion Questions (optional, Follow Up
  Assignments)
• Discuss with your group.

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The BIG IDEAS of Guided Reading
List the Important points about guided reading
Discuss in your groups
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The BIG IDEAS of Guided Reading

• Meets the needs of individual students in a small
  group setting
• Gives students regular opportunities to
  practice/apply reading strategies to
  instructional level text
• Balances planned instruction with on- the spot
  coaching

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The BIG IDEAS of Guided Reading

• Maintains a focus on teaching strategies
• Challenges students to think about their reading
• Gives experiences across the genres
• Grouping is flexible

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