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Effective, balanced literacy programs for young children are rich in varied reading and writing experiences. A critical component of these programs is direct instruction that meets children's immediate learning needs. Guided reading provides this instruction by combining a set of powerful teaching strategies to strengthen students' reading skills. Meeting together in small, flexible groupings, teachers and students work with texts closely matched to students' instructional reading levels.
Using questions, prompts, and other forms of scaffolding, skilled teachers help children develop and use a variety of reading strategies to unlock the meaning of text.
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Using Guided Reading to Strengthen Students' Reading Skills at the Emergent Level, Grades K-3
*Includes a comprehensive video training resource guide
In this video training program, viewers see emergent-level readers participating in guided reading lessons. The lessons are structured to nurture and support students' development of sight vocabulary and phonics skills, appropriate use of text illustrations, and growth in reading fluency.
Viewers learn how to:
Most young, emergent-level readers and writers possess a bubbling enthusiasm for literacy learning. Guided reading is able to channel that energy and excitement into meaningful interactions with text and visible growth in literacy skills and strategies. By utilizing these approaches and techniques, teachers add an incredibly important dimension to their instructional reading programs.
Using Guided Reading to Strengthen Students' Reading Skills at the Developing Level, Grades K-3
In this video training program viewers see developing-level readers actively involved in guided reading lessons and follow-up activities. Unlike other products and programs available on this topic, this set of training materials is not directly tied to a particular author or publisher. Nancy Paulson and Nancy Nos, outstanding teachers and guided reading practitioners, provide models, explanations, and suggestions for moving students from emergent-level reading instruction into guided reading lessons and activities more appropriate to young, developing literacy learners.
It is all too easy to continue using tried-and-true emergent-level instructional strategies with developing readers and writers. Instead, these growing literacy learners need a guided reading format that addresses their increasing capability and capacity for reading independence. Viewers will be able to implement these strategies and approaches in their own classroom literacy programs and observe their own students responding with increased literacy growth and enthusiasm for reading.
Using Guided Reading to Strengthen Students' Reading Skills at the Fluent Level, Grades K-3
In this video training program viewers see near-fluent and fluent-level readers actively engaged in guided reading lessons. Nancy Paulson and Nancy Nos, exceptional guided reading practitioners, provide instructional models, explanations, and suggestions for how to develop practical, meaningful guided reading experiences for young, fluent readers. The texts used in these demonstrations come from a variety of sources rather than a single publisher. The instructional strategies are also varied and reflect good literacy-teaching practices rather than a narrow philosophical viewpoint.
As children progress to near-fluent and fluent levels of literacy, they continue to reap great benefits from the structure and support that guided reading provides. In small, flexible guided reading groups young readers are able to strengthen their fluency, comprehension, and higher-level thinking skills over a wide variety of text, both fiction and nonfiction. Children learn how to draw meaning from and make connections with increasingly sophisticated text.
