Guided Reading

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Guided Reading Grades 3-6

• Diane Kennedy
• Instructional Coach
• Sioux Falls School District

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Objectives of this Session

• To provide a quick overview of Reading Workshop
  in the intermediate grades
• To discuss the purpose/goals of guided reading
• To discuss how to assess and group your students
  for guided reading
• To provide you with interactive activities for
  before, during and after a guided reading lesson

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Reading Workshop in Intermediate

• Language/word work
• Vocabulary Work Poetry
• Spelling Sorts Read
  Aloud
• Grammar
• Guided Reading
• Independent Reading
• Literature Circles

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Reading Instruction

• Students must adjust their strategies as they
  read for different purposes or for new genres.
• Students need to learn how to organize their
  knowledge in order to summarize or draw
  inferences from increasingly difficult text.
• Explicit instruction is needed for most students
  and will make reading more meaningful.
• Reading is thinking!

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Best Practice in Reading

• -Teacher reading good literature aloud to
  students
• -Time for independent reading
• -Childrens choice of their own reading material
• -Balance of easy and hard books
• -Exposing children to a wide and rich range of
  literature
• -Teacher modeling and discussing his/her own
  reading processes
• -Primary instruction emphasis on comprehension
• -Teaching reading as a process
• -Social, collaborative activities with much
  discussion and interaction
• -Grouping by interests or book choice
• -Silent reading followed by discussion
• -Teaching skills in the context of whole and
  meaningful literature
• -Writing before and after reading
• -Use of reading in the content area
• _Evaluation focused on holistic, higher order
  thinking processes
• -Measuring success of reading program by
  students reading habits, attitudes and
  comprehension

• -Students compelled to read aloud to whole class
  or reading group, being corrected and marked down
  for errors
• -Exclusive emphasis on whole class or reading
  group activities
• -Teacher selection of all reading materials for
  individuals and groups
• -Exclusively difficult instructional level
  books
• -Relying on selections in the basal
• -Teacher keeping his/her own reading tastes and
  habits private
• -Primary instructional emphasis on reading
  subskills such as phonics, word analysis and
  syllabication
• -Teaching reading as a single, one step act
• -Solitary seatwork
• -Grouping by reading level
• -Round robin reading
• -Teaching isolated skills in phonics
  workbooks/drills
• -Little or no chance to write
• -Segregation of reading to reading time
• -Evaluation focused on individual, low level
  subskills
• -Measuring success of reading program only by
  test scores

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Guided Reading

• The aim of guided reading is to develop
  independent readers who question, consider
  alternatives, and make informed choices as they
  seek meaning
• Margaret
  Mooney

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Purpose of Guided Reading

• To allow the teacher an opportunity to model how
  readers think, make personal connections to the
  text, and to go beyond the text.
• To bring together groups of students who are
  similar in their reading behavior.
• To provide specific and focused instruction
• To teach at the cutting edge of your students
  understanding
• To integrate content areas into reading
• To meet the instructional needs of your students!

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Setting Up Your Classroom

• Classroom library that is labeled based on genre,
  author, theme, nonfiction, chapter, magazines,
  leveled
• Go to Beth Newinghams website to print out
  labels and see more examples
• http//hill.troy.k12.mi.us/staff/bnewingham/myweb3
  /

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Other Areas in the Room

• Meeting Area for Read Aloud
• Smart board area
• Writing Center with materials
• Areas for small groups to meet
• Technology
• Reference area
• Guided Reading area
• Highlighters, writing material, dry erase
  boards,

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Grouping and Selecting Text

• Assess with DRA/STAR testing
• Provides level, as well as
  strengths/weaknesses
• Group for a variety of reasons
• Fluency Interests
• Reading level Areas of
  concern
• Text structure
• Groups must be flexible!

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Materials

• Basal
• Leveled readers provided with basal or in book
  room
• Magazine articles, such as National Geographic
• Newspaper articles
• Short passages
• Poetry
• Plays/Readers Theater
• http//www.teachingheart.net/readerstheater.htm
• http//www.smithsonianmag.com/
• http//faculty.usiouxfalls.edu/arpeterson/
• District library website

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When we ignore the before stage of reading, rush
students through the during reading stage, and
focus all our attention on the after reading
stage, we are working from the position of
tester, not teacher.Real Reading, Real Writing
Content Area StrategiesDonna Topping and Roberta
McManus
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Getting Your Community Of Readers Started

• Guiding Readers and Writers Grades 3-6
• Authors Fountas and Pinnell
• The First 20 Days
• Selecting books (how readers choose books,
  making good book choices)
• How to buzz about books.
• Fiction vs. Nonfiction (different kinds of
  
• fiction/nonfiction)
• Writing responses to your reading
• Abandoning books

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Before Reading Strategies

• Introduce vocabulary
• Predicting
• Making connections
• Questioning
• Level the playing ground, welcomes everyone into
  the conversation and learning in our classroom
• Activities word sorts, anticipation guide, three
  columns, predict/view/prove

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During Reading Strategies

• Monitor reading
• Inferring, making connections, synthesizing,
  predicting, questioning
• Activities word sort, Prove It with
  highlighters, write around the text

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After Reading Strategies

• Retelling/summarizing
• Answering questions/more questions
• Confirming predictions
• Activities word sort, which graphic organizer
  goes with this text, anticipation guide, readers
  notebook, interactive conversation , carousel walk

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What are the rest of the students doing while you
meet with groups?

• Readers Notebook (see example)
• Talking with others about their reading
• Independent reading time
• Working on any work from Guided Reading group
• Computer research
• Literature Circles/book clubs

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Home/school Connection

• Weekly reading logs
• specific genre
• basic
• Grade level portaportals
• http//www.sfinstructionalresources.wikispaces.net
  /

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Websites

• http//hill.troy.k12.mi.us/staff/bnewingham/myweb3
  /
• http//www.sfinstructionalresources.wikispaces.net
  

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Any questions?