Guided Reading is a chance for teachers who have given assessments to work with a student or a small group of students in a way that helps the children become more capable readers. Guided reading has enabled me to work with students in small-group settings in order explicitly teach syntactic and meaning cues as well as teach comprehension strategies. My grouping was based on strategy needs. I instructed groups of students based on the strategy that they need to work on.This small group setting allowed me to understand each child’s strengths and needs as a reader. Small-group lessons are incredibly important to me because I care about each of my students and Guided Reading lets me plan for the “whole child.” I am able to see what help each child needs as a reader and then strategically plan groups. I absolutely will be using the Daily Five and Guided Reading into my future literacy rich classroom.
Evidence 1:
Here is my lesson plan from one of my weeks of Guided Reading instruction. I taught Guided Reading with this small group based on a 3 minute assessment of each child. I saw that these students struggled with comprehension of text. The strategy I taught was retelling. We worked on this for four days and then I released the students to try it on their own after each days meeting.
Evidence 2:
I plan to use one-on-one reading conferences as another way to supplement my reading instruction. I will ask students what they are reading about and form goals for the students with the help of that student. Each student will know what goal they are working on, because it will be written in their reading conference journal. I will explicitly teach that student what their goal is and model it. I will then send them to practice during independent reading time.
Here is another look at what conferencing can look like. Please, click the link to see a video about reading conferencing.
Alyssa Huth 