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Reading Strategies

Guided reading is a research-based instructional approach where teachers work with small groups of students reading at similar levels, formed based on running record assessments. The document also discusses the importance of phonics, various reading comprehension skills, and types of reading assessments, emphasizing the need for differentiated instruction to ensure student success. Additionally, it includes activities to engage students in guided reading sessions.

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Reading Strategies

Guided reading is a research-based instructional approach where teachers work with small groups of students reading at similar levels, formed based on running record assessments. The document also discusses the importance of phonics, various reading comprehension skills, and types of reading assessments, emphasizing the need for differentiated instruction to ensure student success. Additionally, it includes activities to engage students in guided reading sessions.

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Gudided

reading
Kindergarten - Grade 3
What is guided
reading?
True or False?

It is often difficult to manage a whole class


of children when focusing on one or two
groups at a time.
True or False?

During guided reading sessions all


students must read the grade level text
True or False?

During guided reading sessions students are


generally only heard to read aloud once a
week, especially when it’s their group’s turn.
What is guided reading?

Guided Reading is a research-based


instructional approach in which a teacher
works with a small group of students who are
reading at similar levels at a particular point
in time.
Small-Group Instruction. Groups are formed based on students'
“instructional" reading level, which is determined by a running
record assessment.
Raz-kids
Guided reading is a session within the classroom,
students are placed into small groups according to
their level of reading ability.
Misconceptions
about Guided
reading
Kids Get Bored
Planning takes forever
You have to meet with every student daily
It takes a long time
Guided Reading isn’t needed in upper grades
Phonic
s
Genesis used Jolly Phonic program from Kindergarten to Grade 2
Phonics is an important skill that forms the foundation of reading and
writing. This approach helps students develop phonemic awareness,
which is the ability to identify and manipulate individual sounds in spoken
words. By understanding the relationship between letters and sounds,
students become better equipped to recognize and decode words,
leading to improved reading fluency and comprehension.
Activity 1

Secret word pass


1.

1. Write your word and pass it


2. read the new words and write your word
3. Pass, read, & unitl you get your write until you get your card back.
Activity 2

Heads up
Read the story.
One person steps aside to write 10 to 15 words from the book- Nouns,
Verbs, and Adjectives on each stack of cards
Keep the cards upside down. Each person picks a card put on the
forehead . The fellow students describe the word and the person has to
guess the word.
Activity 3

Read light- Green Light


The teacher says green light- Start reading
The teacher says red light - Stop reading and say what you
just read about.
Activity 4

Mystery word ( Good for buddy reading and introducing new


vocabulary)
Reveal one sound at a time.
Students guess what the word is
When the word is revealed, students self check if they were right.
Reading comprehension
skills
Fiction vs non-fiction
Sequencing /Re-telling
Fiction refers to stories not
Story sequence is the process
grounded in real-life events
but made up or created from a of recalling the events in a
writer's imagination. Nonfiction story from the beginning,
refers to factual stories based middle, and end.
on real people, information, or
events.
Reading comprehension
skills

Main idea and supporting Making connections


details Text to Self
The main idea is the most
Text to text
important part of the text.
Supporting details are details
that describe or explains the
main idea
Reading comprehension
skills

Making Predictions
Story map
A STORY MAP is a
A good reader always makes
graphic organizer that
predictions before they read helps students learn the
and while they read elements of literature by
identifying characters,
plot, and setting.
Types of Reading
Assessment

Informal Formal
Informal reading assessments are ongoing
Formal reading assessments provide
assessments which is used to diagnose a
teachers with a criterion-based,
student's strengths and weaknesses. It then authentic benchmark/interim
drives instruction and supports the student's assessment evaluating student
reading progress. reading level and reading behaviors It
determines independent or
instructional levels of reading
engagement, oral reading fluency,
and reading comprehension.
Differentiation

Is differentiated reading instruction really necessary? The


answer is no. Differentiated reading instruction is not
necessary UNLESS… you want success and growth for
each of your students and a greater level of fulfillment
from your teaching career.
Differentiation

Sarcasm Aside
Resources

Books- Raz-kids / Reading A-Z for leveled books


Informal reading Assessment- Raz-kids running records
Formal Reading Assessment- Developmental Reading
assessment

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