Examine Guided Reading-Chapter 10

As I began to read this chapter I began pulled out my highlighter because I knew that this was an area that I needed to improve in. Guided reading is an area that I always want to do get better at, and have struggled with. There are lots of components that make up guided reading and a lot of them are covered in this chapter. One of the things that I realized that I was not doing correctly was student grouping. Routman stated to adequately do guided reading you must have group sizes of 6 or less so that you can customize the instruction. While I was reading this chapter there were several tips I picked up on the side in the text boxes. I found the subtitles helpful as well. I realized that modeling is an important component of guided reading.

I enjoyed reading the dialogue excerpts of the guided reading lessons, the questions gave me a better understanding of how to word questions, and the appropriate responses that I should seek. It was also stated that teachers should ask themselves, “How is what I am doing today going to help students become more independent readers?” This made perfect since to me, epically when I read the list that followed. The goal is to help students become independent readers and to have a passion for reading. With that being said Guided Reading provides that extra help students need to relearn strategies, practice new strategies, and to have dialogue about what they are reading.