The article I read is titled Guided Reading for ALL students. It states that guided reading “is
the process by which we can help students to be strategic in their reading- and
improve their skills at getting information from books”. The article says that during Guided Reading students actively participate in
the group reading process – by listening and making their own conclusions about
the text. The author believes that Guided Reading is never about passively
listening as a book is read – it is about each and every student actively
listening to the book and participating in the discussion after it has been
read. An important part of Guided Reading is repeated reading of a text
– every day for a week – and setting a different purpose each time the book is
read. The articles says that the purposes need to be broad and encourage the
students to listen to the whole book…
If
the book being read is “Where is the Green Sheep? 
” by Mem Fox ,
broad purposes would be: “Read the book to tell me your favorite color sheep”
or “Read the book to discuss the funniest thing a sheep does”. It says it is
best to avoid narrow purposes, such as “tell me two colors of sheep” as many
students would only listen for the first two colors and then their focus would
move to remembering “the answer” rather than listening to the whole text.
Narrow purposes also tend to be more obvious – so they don’t encourage a
student to process a whole text and problem solve.
” by Mem Fox ,
broad purposes would be: “Read the book to tell me your favorite color sheep”
or “Read the book to discuss the funniest thing a sheep does”. It says it is
best to avoid narrow purposes, such as “tell me two colors of sheep” as many
students would only listen for the first two colors and then their focus would
move to remembering “the answer” rather than listening to the whole text.
Narrow purposes also tend to be more obvious – so they don’t encourage a
student to process a whole text and problem solve.
The
article also addresses student with disabilities, one of the concerns she gets
about guided reading to children with disabilities is that people feel the
students can’t participate in guided reading because they don’t understand what
is expected of them. Her response is that until
we expect them to understand, and give them the opportunity to participate,
then they won’t be able to do it. We need to see the students we work with as
readers and writers – we need to have an expectation that they CAN succeed. I
believe this statement completely, we do not know what each student is capable
of until we include them and see what they are capable of.
http://sealbark.blogspot.com/2009_04_01_archive.html - Watch Me!
This video is awesome!
It shows what children with disabilities are capable of reading, and we should
not judge them off their disability, you have to treat them the same as any
other child that is learning to read, and help them in the same ways.
-Do you have any tips on guided reading to children with
disabilities? I searched and searched and couldn’t find too much on the subject.
In my Special Education Class a suggestion was putting a peer tutor with a student with disabilities in order to help them through the guided reading. The peer tutor could be someone who works well with the student or a higher level learner.
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