Part 1

What do you remember about learning to ride a bike?

-or teaching someone how to ride a bike?

GuidedReading

small group

similarreadingabilities

instructional level

A process that

teachers use to guide

students to

talk, think, and

question

their way through the

text.

ModeledReading

SharedReading

GuidedReading

IndependentReading

a continuum of support

•Read alouds•Think alouds•Modeling what good readers do

•Kids can see the text, teacher reads•Strategies & skills•Reading material

TrophiesBig BooksPoemsCharts

•Silent reading•SSR/DEAR•Centers•Using strategies & skills taught•Self selection•Loving to read

•small groups•same levels•increasing difficulty reading & writing with support•strategies & skills

GuidedReading

small group similar

readingabilities

instructional level

A process that

teachers use to guide

students to

talk, think, and question

their way through the

text.

The instructional activity of teaching and learning

is good only when it proceeds ahead of

development and leads it.

Lev Vygotsky

GuidedReading

small group similar

readingabilities

instructional level

increasinglevels of difficulty

“what good readers do”

A process that

teachers use to guide

students to

talk, think, and question

their way through the

text.

scaffolding

The only way to make

learning to read easy . . is to make

the reading easy.Frank Smith

GuidedReading

small group similar

readingabilities

instructional level

increasinglevels of difficulty

“what good readers do”

A process that

teachers use to guide

students to

talk, think, and question

their way through the

text.

ongoingassessment

reading has

meaning

1st reading: students read silently

scaffolding