Guided Reading Procedure

Guided Reading Procedure

1. Emphasizes close reading

   • Requires the students to gather info and organize it around important ideas
   • Students should be able to accurately reconstruct the message the author was conveying

2. Procedures

   • 1. Prepare students for Reading
     • 2. Assign a reading selection
       • 3. As students finish reading have them turn book face down
         • 4. Help students recognize that there is things they have not remembered from the reading
           • 5. Redirect students to review the selection to correct inconsistencies and add information.
             • 6. Organize the details the students know into an outline
               • What were the important ideas in Chapter 10 of Harry Potter and The Sorcerer’s Stone? What events took place first? What facts on the board connect the main ideas?
               • 7. Extend questioning to stimulate an analysis of the material and synthesis the ideas int knowledge from previous chapters
                 • 8. Provide immediate feedback
                   • Short Quiz as reinforcement of short term memory

3. Examples

   • Guided Disscusion
     • Did you understand the information?
       • Did any information get left out?
         • which facts on the white board can be grouped together?

4. Semantic Mapping

   • helps students produce the authors main ideas in relation to one another
     • reflective questions
       • conclude with a quiz