Guided Reading

A guide to guided reading:

Guided reading is where a small group of children with the same ability level are given the same book to read. The teacher and the children read through the book as a group and after each page is read the teacher will begin asking questions.

Five-part lesson:
· Book introduction
· Strategy check
· Independent reading
· Returning to the text
· Responding to the text

For children to be effective readers they must be able to read at three levels:
· Read the lines
· Read between the lines
· Read beyond the lines

The first level ‘read the lines’ is where the children are able to answer the simple questions to do with their reading such as, Who? Where? What? When? How?

The second level is ‘reading between the lines’ which is where the children have to further their finding in the text to search for clues to answer the questions being asked. An example of a question on this level is ‘what is the author trying to say?’.

The last level to be an effective reader is ‘reading beyond the lines’. On this level the children have to think bigger and outside of the text to answer questions. The questions on this level can be more personal to the children such as, ‘what does this mean to me?’ (Resource, 2017)