Guided Reading in Kindergarten
During shared reading in the kindergarten classroom, teachers guide the entire class through stories with a high level of support. In order to continue meeting the needs of beginning or emergent readers, many kindergarten teachers are also incorporating modified aspects of the guided reading used in most first grade classrooms.
Guided reading has many of the same components as shared reading. However, it is conducted with a smaller number of students and focuses more on the individual reading needs of each child. During guided reading, teachers work with students at their instructional level to guide them in using the context, visual, and structure cues within stories to generate meaning. By using instructional level texts that gradually increase in difficulty, students apply strategies in context and feel successful! The end goal, as with any literacy component used in kindergarten, is for students to become confident, proficient readers who LOVE to read!
Guided reading in kindergarten can be conducted one-on-one or in small groups using books with predictable text, decodable text, books containing a large number of sight words, specially leveled books in a series. Teachers in a full day kindergarten classroom, like ours make it a goal to meet with the students in a small group setting several times a week..
These are just a few areas in which to help students with during guided reading...
Acknowledgments given to Hubbard's Cupboard
Guided reading has many of the same components as shared reading. However, it is conducted with a smaller number of students and focuses more on the individual reading needs of each child. During guided reading, teachers work with students at their instructional level to guide them in using the context, visual, and structure cues within stories to generate meaning. By using instructional level texts that gradually increase in difficulty, students apply strategies in context and feel successful! The end goal, as with any literacy component used in kindergarten, is for students to become confident, proficient readers who LOVE to read!
Guided reading in kindergarten can be conducted one-on-one or in small groups using books with predictable text, decodable text, books containing a large number of sight words, specially leveled books in a series. Teachers in a full day kindergarten classroom, like ours make it a goal to meet with the students in a small group setting several times a week..
These are just a few areas in which to help students with during guided reading...
- tracking print left to right and word by word
- one-to-one matching
- using picture cues
- applying letter and sound knowledge in context
- activating prior knowledge
- recognizing and reading sight words
- predicting and inferring
- attending to concepts of print (spacing, capitalization, punctuation)
- retelling a story with sequence and story elements (characters, setting, beginning, middle, end)
- self-correcting
Acknowledgments given to Hubbard's Cupboard