Merrick Literacy Framework Guided Reading

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Merrick Literacy Framework Guided Reading
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Merrick Literacy Framework

• An effective balanced literacy program
  incorporates the aspects of instruction shown by
  research to help students become successful
  readers.

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Five Pillars of Effective Reading Instruction

• Phonemic Awareness
• Phonics
• Fluency
• Vocabulary
• Comprehension

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Instruction in a Balanced Literacy Approach

• Phonemic awareness
• Phonics instruction
• Interactive read-alouds
• Minilessons

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Instruction in a Balanced Literacy Approach

• Guided reading
• Shared reading
• Small group and individual conferencing
• Independent work
• Literacy centers for individual practice

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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.

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Guided Reading

• Goal is for students to become fluent active
  readers.
• Allows teacher to meet the varying instructional
  needs of all students in the class.
• Driven by assessment to meet individual needs.

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Focus of Guided Reading Grades K-2

• To build a foundation of skills and strategies
  that will lead to independence

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Guided Reading Practices for K-2

• Build sight vocabulary
• Monitor reading and self correct
• Develop early comprehension skills
• Introduce new genres
• Practice reading fluency
• Make connections to their own lives

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Guided Reading in Grades 3-6

• To help students to become active, engaged,
  critical readers

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Guided Reading in Grades 3-6

• Focus on comprehension strategies
• Prediction/Activating Prior Knowledge
• Questions and Questioning
• Think-Aloud/Metacognition
• Text Structure and Features
• Visualizing
• Summarizing and Synthesizing

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Guided Reading SettingsGrades 3-6

• Reciprocal Teaching
• Literature Circles
• Book Clubs

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During Guided Reading teachers.

• guide small groups of students to think, talk and
  read their way through a text.
• support students through new books that offer a
  moderate challenge.
• reinforce strategies taught at the whole class
  level.

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