I have been developing a lot of workshops lately, so blogging has sometimes taken a back seat. Today I am posting the PowerPoint and some of the handouts I recently developed for a Guided Reading workshop I recently delivered in one of my schools. I hope you find them helpful. The workshop gave me a wonderful opportunity to work with some great teachers in our area. I miss my PLN interaction, but certainly enjoy the face-to-face interactions I am having as I get to know teachers in our area!

GUIDED READING

Guided reading has many of the same elements as shared reading.  However,  it is conducted with a smaller number of students and the focus is more on the individual reading need of each child.  During guided reading, teachers work with students at their instructional level to guide them in using the context, visual, and structure cues within stories to generate meaning.  By using instructional level texts that gradually increase in difficulty, students apply strategies in context and feel successful!  While this strategy is often associated with students in the younger grades, it is also very effective when used in an AIS (Academic Intervention Services) setting, as well as with students of any age who are being challenged to read a genre of text they may not be familiar with.

Use the links below to access some of the material I shared during Guided Reading Workshops I facilitated in our region.

Materials posted to Slideshare include: overview materials, reading comprehension posters, and reading comprehension bookmarks. While the embedded file shown below will give you an idea of what the material looks like, you will find the download at Shareware shows better quality and is more complete.