Guided Reading: Making It Work

1. Guided Reading: Making It Work By: Mary Browning Schulman and Carleen DaCruz Payne

2. Structured, practical way of matching reading instruction to the diverse individual readers in the classroom. Respects the belief that every child is capable of learning to read. Recognizes that children learn to read at varying rates of development. Provides opportunity, in a small-group setting, for the teacher to tailor direct instruction to each student’s specific reading needs. Teacher guides or coaches students to think about the reading process & explores reading strategies they need to make sense of the text. Guided Reading--Defined by the Authors

3. Goals of Guided Reading • Helps students become better, independent readers. • Supports children as they are learning to read in early primary grades. • Expands to include reading for information, or reading to learn as students become proficient readers.

4. Literacy Stages; Book Selections • Emergent Readers • Progressing Readers • Transitional Readers • Fluent Readers ************************************************ • Excellent source for matching Readers with books

5. Guided reading is wonderful in theory, but how do you manage it?

6. Questions Answered in the Book about Guided Reading • What type of text is used? • How are students grouped? • How do students read? • How many groups are there in any given classroom? • What is the format of a guided reading lesson?

7. Summary • This book is an excellent guide in answering questions about Guided Reading. It also gives great illustrations in setting up and managing your classroom for effective Guided Reading.