Guided Reading
The process of guided reading is when the teacher scaffolds the student’s zone of proximal development, taking the student from what they know to the next level of reading for development of comprehension, fluency and independent reading levels. Guided reading best practice with students is with the use of coaching students at their instructional levels in small groups, not with the use of round robin reading.
Values:
* Provides the opportunity to read many texts and a wide variety of texts
* Provides opportunity to problem-solve while reading for meaning
* Provides opportunity to use strategies on extended text
* Challenges the reader and creates context for successful processing on novel texts
* Provides opportunity to attend to words in text
* Teacher selection of text, guidance, demonstration, and explanation is available to reader
Best practice values from:
Fountas,I, & Pinnell, G. (1996) Guiding Reading; Good first teaching for all children. Portsmouth, NH: Heinnemann.
Values:
* Provides the opportunity to read many texts and a wide variety of texts
* Provides opportunity to problem-solve while reading for meaning
* Provides opportunity to use strategies on extended text
* Challenges the reader and creates context for successful processing on novel texts
* Provides opportunity to attend to words in text
* Teacher selection of text, guidance, demonstration, and explanation is available to reader
Best practice values from:
Fountas,I, & Pinnell, G. (1996) Guiding Reading; Good first teaching for all children. Portsmouth, NH: Heinnemann.