In my article I found this week on guided reading, I learned that the teacher's role in guided reading is to interest students in the story, relate it to their experiences, and provide a frame of meaning that will support problem solving. It is also important to note that during guided reading, the teacher will work with a small group of students who have been grouped based on similar reading abilities. In these groups you will call to your students attention words in context locating and noticing specific features such as beginning or ending. Guided reading is great because it allows you to tie the students' prior knowledge into the reading and it also allows you as a teacher to monitor each individual in the group for evidence of using reading strategies. The ultimate goal of the guided reading process is to have the students being able to read text independently and silently. One important factor to remember for guided reading is that you need to select a text that the students are able to read with 90% or higher accuracy. I really enjoyed that part in this article where it provides you with connections and extensions that can be used with guided reading. One of these extensions is after reading the story, going back through the selected text and finding targeted words. These targeted words can be words that end in -ed,-es,-ing, etc. Or these targeted words can be words that begin with certain sounds like sh,th,wh. With the class as a whole, you can write these targeted words on a chart and you can have each child read the sentence where these targeted words appear.
Here is the source of my guided reading article:
Guided Reading Source
1. What are some interesting things you have learned about guided reading?
2. How do you plan to integrate guided reading into your reading curriculum in the classroom?
In my reading, the author listed a lot of the benefits students receive from guided reading. I didn't realize how much it helped the kids with comprehension of the text as well as developing higher order thinking skills. I like the ideas that your author offers though. It seems like having the students work together is a great idea and will not only help with peer relationships but will also contribute to better comprehension and ability to relate back to prior knowledge/experiences.
ReplyDeleteIn response to your second question, I will refer to some of the strategies that we discussed in class today. I really appreciate Monica's suggestions of implementing book clubs and graphic organizer completion and book discussion for students who are not participating in guided reading on any given day. I think that it is crucial for teachers to integrate guided reading into the classroom despite the challenges this integration brings. Teachers should plan in advance to create useful, education activities for other students to engage in while the teacher attends to a particular reading group each day.
ReplyDeleteI agree with Rachel, especially after learning about it in class today. I think it is great how Monica told us about the students participating in book clubs and that giving the teacher a great opportunity to implement guided reading. I really really appreciated how we kind of got to see it in real life when she used the books and graphic organizers with us so we could kind of see what it was like participating with those, even though we have previously participated in the book clubs. I think the greatest benefit of guided reading is how it includes everyone and everyone is getting that more individualized instruction, something every reader should get.
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