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What
is Guided Reading & Thinking?
During
this reading strategy, students' comprehension of a selection is
guided and developed by teacher questions. The focus is on the use
of context to predict meaning. As students gain practice and confidence
in using this strategy, the teacher will monitor or confer with
small groups or individual readers.
What
is its purpose?
- to
enable students to establish and verbalize purposes for reading
- to
develop students' story sense (story sequence or story grammar),
and the practice of monitoring for meaning while reading
- to
encourage students to use past experiences, their knowledge of
language and context clues to aid comprehension
- to
develop independent reading skills
How
can I do it?
- Reading
Narrative Text:
- Have
students predict story contents using the title and cover
illustration or information.
- List
and display predictions (a story grid or outline as described
in story grammar may be useful to organize ideas and story
elements).
- Read,
or have students read, introductory pages.
- Ask
students for their perceptions of what has occurred and what
will follow.
- Continue
to read portions of the text, stopping to compare and verify
predictions.
- Record
students' inferences and predictions for the story conclusion.
Complete the selection.
- Compare
students' predictions to story events.
- Relate
the story to students' personal experiences and to other stories.
- Reading
Expository Text:
- Prior
to reading, list or make a webbing of what students know about
the topic.
- Brainstorm
and list questions students have about the topic.
- Have
students view the resource to identify possible clues to the
content.
- Focus
students' attention on the table of contents, illustrations,
headings and sub-headings.
- Encourage
students to predict the content.
- Read,
or have students read, portions of the text.
- Have
students recall significant details.
- Compare
students' predictions to the information contained in the
text.
- Add
new ideas and understandings to students' initial list or
webbing.
How
can I adapt it?
- Students
could write their own story endings using the list of predicted
conclusions.
- Students
could use a self-directed reading and thinking strategy during
independent reading.
- Guided
reading and thinking can be incorporated with:
Assessment
& Evaluation Considerations
- Use
reading conferences to assess students' application of this strategy
during independent reading.
- Assess
students' abilities to comprehend narrative and expository text.
Teacher
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