Christina Foehl and Julie Wilchek Reading Specialists Spring Ridge Elementary School

1. Guided Reading: What Does the Reading Level Mean and How Can Groups Be Formed for Optimum Success? Christina Foehl and Julie Wilchek Reading Specialists Spring Ridge Elementary School

2. Essential Questions: How does guided reading fit into the Common Core classroom? What Common Core aligned instructional techniques propel students forward in their reading development?

3. What does guided reading look like? • How do you define reading? Discuss with your group and record on chart paper Your Thoughts….

4. An individual’s definition of reading will affect what is valued in an assessment, in guided reading, and the entire literacy block • Decoding, speed, retelling, inferential thinking, analysis…. Now that we’ve covered the basics….

5. Three common definitions of reading: • Learning to read means learning to pronounce words. • Learning to read means learning to identify words and get their meaning. • Learning to read means learning to bring meaning to a text in order to get meaning from it. Foertsch, 1998 Putting the pieces together

6. Reading is a message-getting problem solving activity which increases in power and flexibility the more it is practiced correctly. Strategic activities are the beginning of a self-extending learning system. Marie Clay • Skilled readers use sensory, syntactic, semantic, and pragmatic information to read. These various sources of information interact in many complex ways during the process of reading. Rumelhart, D. 1985 Contemporary Definitions

7. Guided reading involves supporting students as they develop strategic approaches to making meaning of reading. It is NOT just small group instruction, rather it is a small group of students with similar reading strategies working with a teacher to learn more about reading and what it is. It involves the teacher selecting the text, introducing it, and providing supportive teaching. Fountasand Pinnell (2006), Burkins and Croft (2010) Our Guided Reading Definition

9. In a recent primary grade intervention study virtually all the growth observed in reading was explained by teachers who provided much more high-success reading activity during their lessons. Ehriet al., 2007 • CC does not prescribe that students spend all their time reading texts that are extremely hard for them, with no access to books that will help them learn. Fountas & Pinnell, 2012 Guided Reading in Common Core

10. Close Reading Independent Reading Vgotsky, 1986

11. Let’s start with the guided reading level How do we form our guided reading groups?

12. Let’s start with the guided reading level What does the guided reading level tell us? How do we form our guided reading groups?

13. Let’s start with the guided reading level What does the guided reading level tell us? • Very little How do we form our guided reading groups?

14. Focus on reading behaviors and strategies • Evidence of what is happening in the student’s brain • Hypothesize where the processing is flowing well and breaking down • Devise an instructional plan to move the student forward in his reading development http://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=elementary+reading+assessment&qs=n&form=QBVR&pq=elementary+reading+assessment&sc=8-29&sp=-1&sk=#view=detail&mid=24C98C77E44D67DA9C0824C98C77E44D67DA9C08 What does the guided reading level tell us?

15. Pinnell& Fountas, 2009

16. GR - Assessment Notes.docx What is observed?

17. While listening to the audio, note the student’s strengths and weaknesses. What is observed?

18. Observations from Audio

19. What can we do to help our student improve his inferential understanding of the text? Focus on Comprehension

20. What can we do to help our student improve his inferential understanding of the text? • Whole Classroom Teaching • Modeling, think aloud, graphic organizers, etc. • Guided Reading • Brief modeling/think aloud, purposeful prompting, manageable text difficulty, etc. • Reading Workshop/Independent Reading • Close Reading Focus on Comprehension

21. Generally includes: • Short text • Text lends itself to deep analysis • Less teacher front loading • Students primarily do the reading - exception K-1 • Slowed reading to analyze • Focus on meaning • Allow children to persevere and struggle with comprehension difficulties • Multiple reads – each with a separate purpose Close Reading

22. Select high quality text that is worth reading and rereading • Teachers must read the text • Develop questions through your own multiple readings • Determine why the text might be difficult • Consider amount of prereading necessary • Previewing, picture walks, purpose, setting, activating prior knowledge, contextualization, vocabulary • Plan multiple readings • Questions will help you determine how many rereadings to use Planning for Close Reading

23. Each reading should accomplish a separate purpose • 1st reading - looking through a lense(choose specific details to gather as data) • 2nd read - look for patterns in text  • 3rd read - develop a new understanding of the text Multiple Readings

24. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nj3zbqztZGc Close Reading in Action

25. Nelson, Kadir. We are the Ship: The Story of Negro League Baseball (2008) from “4th Inning: Racket Ball: Negro League Owners” Most of the owners didn’t make much money from their teams. Baseball was just a hobby for them, a way to make their illegal money look good. To save money, each team would only carry fifteen or sixteen players. The major league teams each carried about twenty-five. Average salary for each player started at roughly $125 per month back in ‘34, and went up to $500-$800 during the forties, though there were some who made much more than that, like Satchel Paige and Josh Gibson. The average major league player’s salary back then was $7,000 per month. We also got around fifty cents to a dollar per day for food allowance. Back then you could get a decent meal for about twenty-five cents to seventy-five cents. Some of the owners didn’t treat their players very well. Didn’t pay them enough or on time. That’s why we would jump from team to team. Other owners would offer us more money, and we would leave our teams and go play for them. We were some of the first unrestricted free agents. There were, however, a few owners who did know how to treat their ballplayers. Cum Posey was one of them. He always took care of his ballplayers, put them in the best hotels, and paid them well and on time. Buck Leonard said Posey never missed a payday in the seventeen years he played for the Grays. A Sample to Try

26. Each reading should accomplish a separate purpose • The first reading of a text should allow the reader to read it through a lens to determine what a text says - literal Multiple Readings

27. Each reading should accomplish a separate purpose • The first reading of a text should allow the reader to read it through a lens to determine what a text says - literal • The second reading should allow the reader to deepen comprehension and find patterns to establish how the details fit together Multiple Readings

28. Each reading should accomplish a separate purpose • The first reading of a text should allow the reader to read it through a lens to determine what a text says - literal • The second reading should allow the reader to deepen comprehension and find patterns to establish how the details fit together • The third reading should allow the reader to evaluate the patterns to develop a new understanding of the text. Multiple Readings

29. New standards are ambitious and are asking teachers to engage children in high level interpretation of challenging texts through close reading • Close reading is a tool to be used, not exclusively, but as determined by the needs of students Common Core Standards

30. Other videos • http://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=reading+assessment+conference+elementary&qs=n&form=QBVR&pq=reading+assessment+conference+elementary&sc=0-0&sp=-1&sk=#view=detail&mid=7F4295A504BA32A005F97F4295A504BA32A005F9 • http://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=Reading+Conferences+with+Students&qs=n&form=QBVR&pq=reading+conferences+with+students&sc=5-33&sp=-1&sk=#view=detail&mid=C9274B737EDAFE17EE76C9274B737EDAFE17EE76 • http://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=Reading+Conferences+with+Students&qs=n&form=QBVR&pq=reading+conferences+with+students&sc=5-33&sp=-1&sk=#view=detail&mid=5A08F1EE3F772F8F186B5A08F1EE3F772F8F186B