Processes and
Strategies

Mini- Lessons - Applying a Guided Reading Approach

Literature Circle (Traditional)

BEFORE READING

Students Monitor their own reading level

Goal: (Ownership of instructional reading level) Students determine if a book is at their personal reading level. 

Students choose a book according to the following criteria:

After skimming and reading several pages determine if this is the appropriate reading level

v     No more than 4-5 difficult word on a page (Vocabulary)

v     Retell what a passage is about by reading it no more that 2 times. (Comprehension)

TEACHER EVALUATION: Did the student match his reading level with the books?

Create groups based on instructional reading level

1.     Independent - 95% plus

2.     Instructional - 90-95%  (Key to growth in Reading)

3.     Frustration  - 90% and less

Students choose a book according to interest level.

Activate Prior Knowledge/Experience

1. Brainstorm , KWL, Web, Lists

GOAL: All students will have a basic background.

Activity: Resource Based Learning Activity: Ecology Unit, War Theme

Predict

Goal: Students are aware of thinking ahead and predicting outcomes.

Oral discussion

Writing connection in journals

Skim

Goal students read titles, bolded word , italics

Question

Students generate meaningful questions

Visualize

Create a mental picture of words and predictions

Set a purpose

Why are you reading this chapter?

What role do I complete?

Mini- Lessons with Guided Reading strategies

Literature Circle (Traditional)

WHILE READING

Reading Rate is adjusted

Set the pace based on the purpose -

Skimming (Word Wizard)

Reading to find information - Summarizer, Passage Picker,

Reading for pleasure

Word Wizard

Predicting/Confirming

Making connections with prereading activities

Self Correcting

Apply strategies of rereading when words or phrases don't make sense.

Monitor Understanding

Identify passages that aren't understood. 

Summarizes

Recalls and checks what was read. 

AFTER READING

Confirms/Adjusts Predictions

Uses specific texts to adjust predictions

Retells

Orally and in written form uses details to retell, sequences events, etc.

Summarizer

Illustrator

Skims and rereads

Locates passages for discussion or for written purposes

Passage Picker

Discussion Director

Makes Inferences

Uses dialogue, settings, conflicts, plot, character actions, etc. to explore implied meanings.

Synthesize

Take the information from large sections of a text and create topic sentences and list important details.

Discussion Director

Makes connections

Relates personal experiences and knowledge to passages

Connector