Mini Lesson:
Before guided reading begins, I teach a lesson that is accompanied by text. The students are aware of the daily objective and what they need to focus on during the read aloud. The guided reading lesson and focus at the different centers follow the objective for the day.
Guided Reading:
Students are guided through reading in small homogeneous groups. Each small group has 4-6 students and they meet with me for 15-25 minutes everyday for individualized, focused instruction on the reading process. We use fiction and non-fiction books at their instructional or independent level. We work on various skills; questioning, inferring, main idea and details, summarizing, word work, predicting, context clues, and fluency.
Literacy Centers:
While I work with a group, the other students are working with one another at a center. Three days a week, there is either a parent volunteer or a para working with one of the groups. Read to self, listen to reading (listening center or Tumblebooks), work on writing, work with words, and read to somebody are examples of the different centers the students work through almost every day.
Before guided reading begins, I teach a lesson that is accompanied by text. The students are aware of the daily objective and what they need to focus on during the read aloud. The guided reading lesson and focus at the different centers follow the objective for the day.
Guided Reading:
Students are guided through reading in small homogeneous groups. Each small group has 4-6 students and they meet with me for 15-25 minutes everyday for individualized, focused instruction on the reading process. We use fiction and non-fiction books at their instructional or independent level. We work on various skills; questioning, inferring, main idea and details, summarizing, word work, predicting, context clues, and fluency.
Literacy Centers:
While I work with a group, the other students are working with one another at a center. Three days a week, there is either a parent volunteer or a para working with one of the groups. Read to self, listen to reading (listening center or Tumblebooks), work on writing, work with words, and read to somebody are examples of the different centers the students work through almost every day.