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Guided Reading Program. Kim Wood Kristin Jent Alyson Ward. What is Guided Reading?. Teacher supports each reader’s development (Coach or Guide) Challenges the level of difficulty for each student
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Guided Reading Program Kim Wood Kristin Jent Alyson Ward
What is Guided Reading? • Teacher supports each reader’s development (Coach or Guide) • Challenges the level of difficulty for each student • Students can read books with the strategies that they currently have and continue to learn new things
More About Guided Reading: • Balanced literacy approach • Designed to help students become confident and competent readers. • Students write many journal responses and self-evaluations
Benefits of Guided Reading: • Helps create a classroom of independent learners. • Accommodates differentiated instruction. • Pinpoints reading needs, reading levels, reading strengths, and reading interests. • Helps match emergent readers, early readers, and fluent readers with skill-appropriate text.
More Benefits: • Better informs and guides your instruction for each student. • Employs scaffolding opportunities for building stronger literacy. • Provides support for better management of your time and resources—especially with small group instruction.
What does Guided Reading do for the Students: • It reinforces problem-solving, comprehension, and decoding. • It provides opportunities for establishing good reading habits and strategies. • Guided reading groups are formed and reconfigured to meet the needs of the individual
Other students can: • Go to literacy centers • Reading activities • Complete unfinished work