SMALL GROUP INSTRUCTION
READING INSTRUCTION SHOULD:
SMALL GROUPS HELP CHILDREN TO:
SMALL GROUPS HELP TEACHERS TO:
- Match the individual reader
- Teach toward independence
- Teach strategies explicitly so that readers become proficient and skilled
- Value time spent, volume, and variety of reading
- Follow predictable structures and routines
SMALL GROUPS HELP CHILDREN TO:
- Read increasingly more challenging texts
- Feel like part of a team as they work on the same goal with other students
- Mentor one another toward their goals
SMALL GROUPS HELP TEACHERS TO:
- Provide strong instructional support as students read texts that are on the edge of their learning- not too easy but not too hard(Vygotsky)
- Work more efficiently: more children can be seen more frequently for intervention or enrichment; especially important in today's classrooms with higher benchmarks and increased demands placed on students and teachers
- See more children in the same time it takes to do one individual conference
Guided Reading
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Strategy Lessons
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