How do students become proficient readers?
Guided Reading Short Reads are an easy, affordable, and effective way to enhance small-group differentiated instruction through authentic leveled texts that provide opportunities for deep reading. Through a wide range of subjects and text types, students expand their academic and domain-specific vocabulary and deepen comprehension and analytical skills.
In a Guided Reading classroom, students learn how to read in three phases:
- pre-reading
- while-reading
- after-reading
Students who are reading at a similar developmental levels are divided into small groups where they read the same text, silently or quietly to themselves. The teacher then guides a discussion of the text, addressing its meaning or other aspects through exercises targeted to the students’ areas of weakness or strength. The teacher supports each reader’s development as they read increasingly challenging exiled texts over time.
