Guided Reading
Small Group
Benefits
Benefits
- Supports the transfer of reading strategies so students can apply the learning to their independent reading
- Three key understandings: 1) determine students’ instructional reading levels 2) choose appropriate leveled, engaging text for each group 3) deliver short (15-20 min.), strategic lessons that support students in building strategies
- Assessments: reading interest surveys, previous year’s assessments, observation for oral language development, vocabulary, fluency, background knowledge and experience, and reading inventories to identify groupings
- Groups are fluid and flexible: frequent progress monitoring
Formative data helps inform possible focus for a read-aloud, shared reading, or a mini-lesson
Planning
Planning
- Assessment: to identify zone of proximal development - phonics tests, reading inventories (accuracy, comprehension, fluency), sight words, observation, written response
- Book selection considerations:
- 1) level of text
- 2) suited to focus strategy
- 3) student interest/familiarity with topic
- Groups: six or fewer students at approximately the same instructional level
- Identify lesson focus: skill, strategy or behavior
- Determine before reading, during reading and after reading activities
