Lesson 5.3: Overview of Guided Reading
Focus: Understand what a small group guided reading lesson consists of and why guided reading is an essential part of a comprehensive literacy framework.
Prior to the Collaboration Group Meeting
1. Reflection Journal
Write in your reflection journal prior to the Collaboration Group meeting. You are to respond weekly in your journal, reflecting on your learning, observation, questions, and personal connections. Your reflections need to be at least 250 words. You may choose how to format your journal, though you may want to consider the following as you write:
- What are some new understandings you made this week as a result of the work for this lesson and your work with your students?
- How has this new understanding influenced your current practice?
Bring your reflection journal to the weekly Collaboration Group meeting, and prepare to share your entries.
2. Reading
NOTE: To print the linked documents, do the following:
- Put your mouse on the document and right click. You will see a window that asks you where you want to download the document.
- Determine where you want to save the document.
- After saving the document, open and print it in MS Word
- Read Overview of Guided Reading.
- Read Literacy Education Certificate Course IV (pp. 29-45).
- Read On Solid Ground (pp. 96-114 and 156-162). As you read, take notes using What I Know and Don’t Know About Guided Reading.
During the Collaboration Group Meeting
- The facilitator leads the Collaboration Group in:
- Sharing reflection journal entries.
- Discussing What I Know and Don’t Know About Guided Reading.
- Discussing what guided reading might look like in their classrooms including what might work well, what might need to be adapted, and what might be challenging.
- Include in the discussion what the rest of the class can do when the teacher is meeting with a small, guided reading group.
- Determine the facilitator, recorder, timekeeper, date, time, and location for the next Collaboration Group meeting.
After the Collaboration Group Meeting
- Email to the instructor a copy of What I Know and Don’t Know About Guided Reading. Send your assignment(s) to the instructor as an attachment to an email message. Be sure to include your name, date, location, and title on the document. Also, include your name and lesson title in the file name, for example, moses_guided_reading.
- The recorder emails the Collaboration Group notes to the instructor and any questions the group has about guided reading. The instructor responds to the recorder with additional explanations and the recorder shares the information at the next Collaboration Group meeting.
- The recorder also places copies of all the work done by the Collaboration Group in the Collaboration Group Notebook for future reference.
- The timekeeper emails the attendance to the instructor.
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