Kristin, This was the most practical response I've gotten! Thanks! Questions for Kristin and everyone - so you don't really plan much in advance for guided reading; it's completely based on what you observe in the students? Do you pick out texts beforehand, or do you decide week to week? Finally, how do you make sure you meet with everyone enough? I teach gifted kids, and some of them are very strong readers, so I can see them getting somewhat neglected. Is it essential to meet equally with every kid?
~Maggie 5th/TX On 7/27/07, GRISTINA, KRISTIN <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Guided reading does not have it's own separate curriculum, but rather is > an opportunity for you to work with different groups of kids on any number > of strategies or skills that you've found they are having difficulty with. > In addition, if you have students that AREN'T having any difficulty, guided > reading groups are a great opportunity to challenge those students with new > skills that are more complex and difficult. So if you have a group of kids > who don't get visualizing you can revisit that in a guided reading group, > but you can also re-teach and practice other things like predicting or > fluency or decoding strategies. Guided reading should teach whatever it is > kids need to learn and practice more. > > Kristin > NJ > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Maggie Dillier > Sent: Fri 7/27/2007 1:37 PM > To: Mosaic: A Reading Comprehension Strategies Email Group > Subject: Re: [MOSAIC] The BIG question - expert advice needed! > > > One thing I am still confused about is guided reading. If we're working on > visualizing this week, do I observe which kids aren't visualizing well and > work with them that week? Or do you have a separate guided reading > curriculum, whatever that means? > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Mosaic mailing list > [email protected] > To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to > http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/mosaic_literacyworkshop.org. > > Search the MOSAIC archives at http://snipurl.com/MosaicArchive. > > > -- Maggie Dillier "If you want to build a ship, don't herd people together to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea." (Antoine de Saint-Exupery) _______________________________________________ Mosaic mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/mosaic_literacyworkshop.org. Search the MOSAIC archives at http://snipurl.com/MosaicArchive.
