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Teaching Guided Reading

by Adam Waxler on Jun 11, 2009

Teaching Guided Reading


What is guided reading?

What are some guided reading activities?

How about guided reading demonstrations or guided reading lesson plans?

Using guided reading as a teaching strategy has become more and more popular as the emphasis in education continues to focus on how to increasing reading comprehension As a teacher mentor, I often have teachers ask me questions about guided reading similar to those above. However, as with any other reading strategy, increasing reading comprehension depends highly on what the teacher does "before" the reading assignment.

First, though, what is guided reading? Simply put, in guided reading students are placed in small groups with similar reading levels. Children read either silently or aloud to themselves, but they do not read in unison. In early guided reading groups books are chosen based on a 90% accuracy level. Books should also match a child's interests and knowledge base.

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