Are you looking for some classroom Guided Reading tips & tricks to use with your students? Guided Reading is the step between shared reading and independent reading,
Youngsters are usually grouped with peers who demonstrate similar reading levels and texts are chosen that can be read without much support. Students ought to be able to read these texts with fluency but with the opportunity for challenges and problem solving.
This way their reading levels are pushed along, and they are slowly improving their skillset. The teacher offers support by facilitating discussion around the texts, offering focus, and assisting with deciphering new words and meanings through phonics and reading strategies.
Guided Reading can be used for fiction and nonfiction literature. There are ten coaching strategies or target areas for students to learn so they can become an independent reader.
Let’s take a look at five of these Guided Reading coaching strategies and a few tips on teaching each strategy.
1. Directionality Coaching
- Show me the front of the book
- Point to the title.
- Open the book
2. Fluency Coaching
- Read the text for me and point to the words.
- Read it now without using your finger. Did your eyes have any trouble keeping their place on the page?
- Read the text again, but now try to read it like you are talking
3. Picture Clues Coaching
- Whom do you see in the picture?
- Tell me all of the names that characters could be called.
- How is the character feeling?
4. High-Frequency Words Coaching
- Look at the story for words that may be on our word wall.
- Be a word detective. Can you find a word that doesn’t look and sound the way it is spelled?
- Some words are used a lot in our language, but they don’t sound the way they should. Let’s type _______ into our brain’s computer to help us remember this word. (Pretend to type the words on top of your head).
5. One-to-One Correspondence Coaching
- Point to the words while you read.
- While you were pointing, did you run out of words, have too many words or have just the right number of words?
- Try to read again. I am going to make a small check mark each time you read a word. Let’s see if my check marks match the number of words on the page.
Finally, there are many classroom Shared Reading tips for a teacher to use for nonfiction text. This is a wonderful instructional approach to teach students the reading strategies they need to become a fluent reader and writer. If you are interested in knowing more about Shared & Guided Reading, click on the picture below to view and or purchase these Reading Coaching Tools! Happy Reading!
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