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The Secrets of Guided Reading (In Lower Elementary). Miss Allison Dalton 1 st Grade Teacher Discovery Elementary School. Reading Workshop. Guided Reading. =. Balanced Literacy. Balanced Literacy. BALANCED LITERACY INSTRUCTION. Reading Workshop. Four Components of
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The Secrets of Guided Reading (In Lower Elementary) Miss Allison Dalton 1st Grade Teacher Discovery Elementary School
Reading Workshop Guided Reading = Balanced Literacy
Balanced Literacy BALANCED LITERACY INSTRUCTION Reading Workshop
Four Components of Balanced Reading Instruction SHARED READING READ ALOUD INDE-PENDENT READING BALANCED LITERACY INSTRUCTION Reading Workshop
Reading Workshop in a Typical Classroom BALANCED LITERACY INSTRUCTION GUIDED READING SHARED READING READ ALOUD INDE-PENDENT READING
What is Guided Reading? Leveled Text Just right… Not too easy & not too hard The child can manage decodingcomprehensionfluency
What is Guided Reading? Leveled Text
Independent: Out of 100 words they only have 0-4 errors.
What is Guided Reading? Leveled Text “The highest achieving students receive a steady diet of ‘easy texts’-texts they can read accurately, fluently and with strong comprehension.” ~ Dr. Richard Allington ~ (International Reading Association President)
What is Guided Reading? Leveled Text
Instructional: 5-9 errors
What is Guided Reading? Leveled Text
What is Guided Reading? Leveled Text
The 4 types of Readers Emergent Early Transitional Fluent
The 4 types of Readers Emergent (Levels A-C) • The overall focus is on concept of print, letter sounds, and beginning to read and write sight words. • Texts- strong picture support, familiar concepts and some repetitive phrases
The 4 types of Readers Early (Levels D-I) • The overall focus is on teaching students how to self-monitor, use decoding strategies, read fluently and comprehend what they’ve read. • Texts- Stories that make sense, pictures and illustrations provide support for unfamiliar concepts, opportunities to problem solve unknown words, supports strategies the students need guidance with.
The 4 types of Readers Transitional (Levels J-P) • The overall focus is on teaching students how to decode multisyllabic words, increase their fluency, expand their vocabulary, improve their comprehension, and learn how to analyze and discuss text. • Texts- Stories that will allow you to target the certain strategies listed above.
The 4 types of Readers Fluent (Levels N and above)
What Does the Guided Reading Lesson Look Like? BEFORE DURING AFTER Reading
Before Reading – “The Set Up” WHAT YOU’LL SEE: PURPOSE: • Introduce book Sight word review Book Introduction: • Set a purpose for reading • Activate prior knowledge • Quick gist of the book • Picture walk(into new vocab, • new concepts, make predictions) • Notice text features • Access background knowledge • Review strategies
During Reading – “The Spying” WHAT YOU’LL SEE: PURPOSE: • Teacher observe use of: • -Reading Strategies • - Monitoring for MSV • -Fluency • - Comprehension (higher • level thinking) • Whispering individual reading of whole text • Teacher “listening in” • Teacher assisting when needed or asked (prompts, questions, encourages) • Children decode & make meaning of text: • - Decoding strategies • - Background knowledge • - Wondering questions • Studentsusing previously learned strategies
After Reading - “Debriefing” WHAT YOU’LL SEE: PURPOSE: • Praise for something that the students in the group did good at. • Make meaning of text • Teaching Point by Teacher- based off of what the teacher saw while listening to reading • Synthesize material • Assess understanding • Guided Discussion • Reflect on success • Teaching of a new sight word • Working with words activity or guided writing
Balanced Reading Instruction Independent Reading = Practice Children need time to practice the skills that they’ve been working on during guided reading. They’re trying them out, on their own, without support. Goal- Transfer of skills *This can be hard and may take time- be patient
Four Components of Balanced Reading Instruction Independent Reading = Practice It’s like riding a bike