Literacy Night
Guided Reading
Bev Meyeroff
Reading Specialist
County Line
bmeyeroff@germantown.k12.wi.us
GUIDED READING: Agenda
• How did you learn to read?
• What is guided reading?
• Word solving and comprehension strategies
you can support at home (handout)
• Questions?
HOW DID YOU LEARN TO READ?
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GROUPING
From the running
record teachers
identify students
with similar
instructional needs
and place them in
small, flexible
groups.
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2010
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Gradual Release of Responsibility
TEACHER RESPONSIBILITY
“I do it”
Focus Lesson
“We do it”
Guided Instruction
Independent: IDR
“You do it
alone”
STUDENT RESPONSIBILITY
(c) Fisher & Frey, 2006
Guided Instruction, Practice, Application
• Guided reading
lessons are designed
to provide support
so students can
apply and practice
strategies on their
own.
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FOCUS LESSON
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K-2
Working with books
Working with sounds
Working with letters
Word solving strategies
Comprehension: retelling,
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character analysis, problem/solution,
compare/contrast
• Vocabulary strategies
• Fluency
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3-5
Word solving strategies
Vocabulary strategies
Fluency and phrasing
Comprehension: retelling,
character analysis,
problem/solution,
compare/contrast, visualizing,
making connections, asking
questions, determining
importance, summarizing, cause
and effect, inferring, evaluating
CONFERRING…
• Guided reading is not
round robin reading!
• The focus is on skills
and strategies for
independent reading of
unfamiliar text.
• Students read the
whole text
independently and
softly to themselves.
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BOOK SELECTION
Teachers select a
specific book for a
guided reading
group that clearly
addresses the reading
strategy students need
to practice AND is at the
students’ instructional level (students knows 90% of
the words).
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Word Solving
and
Comprehension
Strategies You
Can Support at
Home
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Word Solving Strategies
• Children need to have a series of strategies
they can use when they do not know a word.
• Not just
“SOUND IT OUT”
• Instead: “What could you try?”
“Try it”
“Try it again”
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WHAT DOES RESEARCH SAY ABOUT
IMPROVING COMPREHENSION?
• Students need to learn what they should think
about while they are reading.
• Students need to learn
how to explain or
describe their
thinking.
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READING IS THINKING!
• Thinking is the essence of reading!
• Reading is more than just
saying words!
Hmmm…
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Questions?