Guided Reading


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**Four Block for the Upper Grades**
This is a great interactive site to foster comprehension in the upper grades. http://readwritethink.og/materials/storymap/
The Swimming Hole, Grade 4 created by Terry Sams
Basic Retelling Rubric	How to Promote Fluency in the Classroom
Comprehension Posters	Comprehension Strategies
Fostering Reading of Informational Text in the Primary Grades	5 Reading Strategies
Teacher's Planning Template for Guided Reading	Martha Ruddell's CSSR Chart
Reading Strategies	Using Picture Books toExplicitly Teach Comprehension Strategies
Tips on How to Teach Students to Be Coaches During Paired Reading	Comprehension Strategies Poster 1 Comprehension Strategies Poster 2
A Weekly Guided Reading Template	Poster for Teachers from Laura at the Readinglady.com
Comparing Proficient and Ineffective Readers	A Resource for Teachers Using the 4 Blocks Guided Reading Book
Getting Jazzy with Genre	Discovering Student Reading Level
The Graphic Organizer	3 Ring Circus Classroom Management Chart, created by Marie Rice, Grade 2 NY
Graphic Organizer Tools	Good Reader Strategies
KWL(What I Know, What I Want to Know, What I Learned)	Concept Map 1
Vocabulary Word Map	5 Step Editing
Classification	Idea Map
Venn Diagram	Venn Diagram to Compare Constrast
Details	Story Map
Comparison Map	Cause/Effect Chart
Chain Reaction	Time Line
Narrative	Make Your Own Bookmarks
Text to Self Text to Text Text to the Real World	Cobblestone Publishing
Book Report Alternatives	Using the Newspaper in the Classroom

Guided Reading and Technology

The guided reading section provides children the chance to experience a wide variety of literature experiences.The main goal is to improve comprehension using several activities.

Guided Reading strategies can be adapted to the computer and a word processor through starting the reading experiences by using the Internet to anticipate and make predictions about what will be read. Instead of dividing students into groups to use their paper and pencil a computer screen could be shared by the group in a collaborative effort.

Books can also be presented to the students in guided reading through a PowerPoint or Hyperstudio presentation with four slides which provide the titles (and maybe a picture of each book taken with a digital camera) and stimulates the students to share personal experiences on the book topic.

The computer word processor and a wide screen can also be used to create a KWL (Know, Wonder, Learned) chart.Students can respond to what they read using the word processor or PowerPoint or Hyperstudio.The word processor can be used to develop a dramatization as a whole class activity. The original story text can be prepared with a word processor ahead of time in the word processor. This document will be displayed on the screen for the students. The teacher and the class will then convert the story together to create the theater script. The edited document can then be printed out for the student dramatization.

Web Resources for Guided and Self-Selected Reading:

·First Grade Bookmarks (choose either .pdf file or Word format) http://www.teachers.net/4blocks/Tenia_Mason_bmarks.pdf http://www.teachers.net/4blocks/Tenia_Mason_bmarks.doc

·Narrative Bookmarks (.pdf file) http://teachers.net/4blocks/ella_narrative_bookmarks.pdf

·Expository Bookmarks (.pdf file) http://teachers.net/4blocks/ella_expository_bookmarks.pdf

·Guided Reading Checklist, http://www.teachers.net/4blocks/kelley_guided_reading_checklist.pdf

·Reading Conference Log, http://www.teachers.net/4blocks/lennette_making_words_hmwk.pdf

·Themes and Book Ideas for Primary Grades http://www.ri.net/schools/Central_Falls/ch/heazak/themes.html

·Guided Reading Lesson Plan, Mr. Wishy Washy, http://www.teachers.net/lessons/posts/2176.html

·Online Children’s Stories, http://www.ucalgary.ca/~dkbrown/stories.html

·Children’s Books and Folktales, gopher://ftp.std.com/11/obi/book/Fairy.Tales/Grimm

·Tell Me A Story, http://home.talkcity.com/GaiaWay/sequana/TellMe.html

·Folklore and Mythology, http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/folktexts.html