Teaching Guided Reading:

Catch a Falling Reader

October 15, 2015

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Introduction
Welcome from
Esmeralda Cantu &
Norma Dominguez!

Our topic: Teaching

Guided Reading

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Goals
Acknowledge your existing literacy
teaching and learning beliefs
Discuss teaching the essential
elements of Guided Reading
instruction
Share strategies for teaching guided
reading to striving readers
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Catch a Falling Reader

Please write the name of
a striving reader on your
star.
Find someone to share
information on that
student.
Reflect on strategies
during the session.
Write new strategies.
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What is Guided Reading?

Guided reading is a highly effective form of small
group instruction. Based on assessment, the
teacher brings together a group of students who
are similar enough in their reading development
that they can be taught together. They read
independently at about the same level and can take
on a new text selected by the teacher that is just a
little more challenging. The teacher supports the
reading in a way that enables students to read a
more challenging text with effective processing,
thus expanding
their reading powers.
~ Irene Fountas and Gay Su Pinnell
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Guided Reading
is a teacher-directed activity for small
groups of students with a similar need.
uses texts at the students instructional
level to provide the necessary support and
challenges during the lesson.
involves intensive teaching, with the
teacher supporting students as they talk,
read and think their way through a text.
involves students practicing strategies that
will enable them to read independently.
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Purpose of Guided Reading

Teachers select books that students can
read with 90-94% accuracy.
Teachers use focus or teaching points.
Students focus on comprehension,
vocabulary and fluency.
Students use problem-solving
strategies modeled by the teacher.

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Matching Books to Readers

Teachers choose leveled books that
Match their knowledge base.
Help them take the next step in learning
to read.
Are interesting to them.
Offer enough challenge to support
problem solving while still supporting
fluency and meaning.

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Dynamic Grouping
Allows children to support each other
Grouped by assessments for strengths
Grouped by appropriate level of text
difficulty
Promotes temporary & flexible
groups
Uses a variety of leveled books
Provides for evaluation based on daily
observations
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Literacy Framework
Purpose of Instructional Reading: To engage
students in learning or acquiring reading
proficiency at their instructional level.
Definition of Instructional/Guided Reading: Using
carefully selected materials based on students
instructional reading levels, interests, and needs,
teachers work with small groups of students on
things such as specific comprehension skills,
reading strategies and fluency.

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Guided Reading Sequence

~Weekly Lesson Plans ~
Monday- Friday: Leveled Readers: Use the
book introduced the prior day to take a running
record on one student. Then, Allow the students
to read the book and do the skill you have
selected to target, take anecdotal notes.
Introduce a new text and build background
knowledge, dont read the whole text, keep this
book to give out tomorrow and take a running
record on one student. Do word work to close
the lesson.
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Guided Reading Sequence

~Lessons Plans ~
In summary: Introduce a new book daily and
keep it to take a running record the next day.
Take a running record on one student per group
per day. Its a weekly assessment for vocabulary,
comprehension, decoding, and fluency
Listen to the other students read and target the
skill chosen.
Take anecdotal notes on the other students, focus
on no more than 2 students per day.
Do word work at the end of the lesson.
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Anecdotal Records
Document an informal observation of
what students are learning.
Record observations as anecdotal
notes while the student reads the
text during guided reading.
Allow teachers to assess children's
understanding of specific reading.
Guide the teachers planning.
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Kidwatching
What strategies do they use?
What are their strengths and
weakness?
What do they do when they get
stuck? Do they give up easily?
Do they learn from the lessons?
Do they read with understanding?
~ Yetta Goodman, Kidwatching: Documenting Childrens Literacy
Development
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Steps to Effective Guided Reading

Be prepared!
Choose a meaningful text that has the appropriate
skill you want to target.
Read the book before and prepare your lesson plan.
Keep groups interchangeable/flexible.
Select appropriate and purposeful text.
Engage in ongoing assessments.
Set only one or two teaching goals for each lesson.
Engage children in talking, reading and thinking.
Source: Min Hong, Teaching First Grade: A Practical Guide

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Comprehension Strategies
Thinking Beyond the Text
Predicting
Connecting
Inferring
Synthesizing
Visualizing

Thinking About the Text

Analyzing
Evaluating
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Teacher Behavior
Provide explicit instruction to teach
reading skills.
Record observations as anecdotal
records during guided reading.
Connect reading to writing,
speaking and listening.

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Student Strategic Behavior

Reading aloud/whisper reading

Solving the words

Self-monitoring their reading
Self-correcting when necessary
Answering questions
Remembering information
Sustaining fluent and phrased reading
Adjusting their reading
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Student Strategic Behavior

Asking relevant questions
Practicing the reading process (predicting,
clarifying, summarizing, responding,
reflecting)
Synthesizing new information
Making connections
Reading between the lines
Think analytically about a text
Think critically about a text

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Reflection
~Turn and Talk ~
How can you use the
information to teach
your striving
readers?
What are your
questions and
concerns?
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Teaching Striving Readers

Involve them in guided
reading every day.
Provide appropriate
levels of text for them to
read.
Guide them to search for
information.
Emphasize fluency and
in reading.
~Fountas and Pinnell
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Teaching Striving Readers

Give them opportunities to discuss their
reading.
Have them write in connection with
reading.
Provide opportunities for silent reading.
Provide word work based on their
needs.
Be sure that they spend their time
reading text.
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So, what are the other

students doing?
The teacher needs to develop meaningful
literacy tasks and activities for the rest of the
class to participate in.
Many teachers believe in sending students to
work stations."
Work stations are specially designed
assignments that take place in certain parts
of the classroom.
Students can complete the tasks
independently or with a partner.
Source: http://wik.ed.uiuc.edu/index.php/Guided_Reading
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Literacy Centers
The challenge for
the teacher is
updating the
content in the
Centers and
managing the
classroom during
this time while
trying to teach a
small group
lesson.
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Center Activities
This is my
management board.
Pink is for work
stations and green is
for math stations
during guided math.

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Some of my work stations

and I can charts

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Some of my work stations

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Word Study and I can

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Task cards for stations

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Bilingual Flowchart
First Grade Beginning of the Year

Assessment

Based on results from EDL2

Guided Reading Levels A-6 Spanish

Guidelines
Reading
Emphasis

Guided Reading Level 12-14 in Spanish

Students reading at levels A-3 upon entering first grade should

receive small group instruction utilizing Estrellita as an
intervention.

Continue Guided Instruction

in Spanish

Provide *Modified Guided Reading instruction to

transition to English
Drop down several levels, i.e. Level 6-8

First Grade Middle of the Year

Assessment

Based on results from EDL2

Guided Levels A-8 Spanish

Guidelines
Reading
Emphasis

Guided Reading Level 12-14 in Spanish

An intervention should be in place for all students reading

below level 8 at the end of the year with the exception of recent
arrivals. .

Continue Guided Reading Instruction in

Spanish

Provide *Modified Guided Reading instruction to

transition to English
Drop down several levels, i.e. Level 6-8

First Grade End of the Year (after spring break)

Assessment

Based on results from EDL2

Guided Reading Level 14 or below

Guidelines
Reading
Emphasis

Guided Reading level is 12-14 in Spanish

An intervention should be in place for all students reading

below level 14 at the end of the year with the exception of recent
arrivals.

Continue Guided Instruction in Spanish

Provide *Modified Guided Reading instruction to

transition to English fluency Drop to level 6-8

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Catch a Falling Reader

Please write one new strategy that
you will use to teach your striving
reader on your star.
Find your first partner.
Share your strategy for teaching
your falling star during guided
reading.

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