1. Jennifer Evans
Assistant Director ELA
St. Clair County RESA
Evans.jennifer@sccresa.org
http://www.protopage.com/evans.jennifer

2. Agenda
Guided
Reading
Review
Reading
Strategies
Lesson
Plans
Homework

3. Homework Discussion
Discussion of Homework: Article –
Motivation to Read Profile
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Type response to question:
What did you find was the most
valuable piece of information for
you in the chapter?

4. Lesson Plan Review
 Share your lesson plan with your table
group.
 Discuss strengths.
 Did you teach it? If so, how did it go? If
not, what final adjustments will you
make before teaching it?

6. Reading Strategies
 For Words
 Read Aloud
 Think Aloud
 Comprehension
 Café
 Mosaic of Thought
○ Nonfiction – Text Features
○ QAR
 Response

7. Strategies for Words

8. Strategies During Read Aloud

9. Think Aloud

10. Comprehension
What Works:
Ample Time for
Reading
Provide time for
sustained reading
(the “Zone”)
Allow Students
choice in selecting
the reading
material
Match students
and text to ensure
success
Encourage multiple
readings of text
(with different
purposes)
Explicit
Instruction
Teach strategies
successful readers
use to comprehend
Model and
demonstrate
strategy use
Provide time for
guided practice
Use authentic text
to practice
strategies
Peer and
Collaborative
Learning
Teach students to
explain things to
each other
Establish goals for
success
Teach students
how to collaborate
Use peer teaching
to reinforce
instruction
Time to Talk
About Reading
Encourage
students to
express their own
thoughts
Use whole class,
small group, and
pair discussions
Embed strategy
instruction in the
discussions
Ask literal, critical,
and evaluative
questions

11. Comprehension
 Common Core Table 2– see handout
 Mosaic of Thought

12. Metacognition
 Talk
 Hook
 Important Ideas
 Need to Question
 Keep visioning
 Engage in inferencing
 Retelling
 Strategies for “fix-up”

14. Study the Strategies
 Look through the packet of strategies
from Mosaic of Thought
 Highlight those you use and are
comfortable with
 Add these choices to your guided
reading lesson plan
 Go back and learn about those
strategies that you do not use a lot or at
all – this will be your goal to work on

15. Nonfiction - Text Structures
There are five text structures found in expository
text.
Compare /
Contrast
Problem /
Solution
Descriptive
Sequence
Cause /
Effect
These strategies need to be explicitly taught to students in
order for them to learn the strategies needed to extract the
most important information from the text.

16. Student Handouts
Think-Aloud
Comprehension
strategy used
Fix-up
strategies
T-chart
Question
Tracker

17. Graphic Organizers
Graphic Organizers can be used as a pre or post
teaching strategy. (activate prior knowledge,
introduce vocabulary, or reinforce key concepts)
Organizers should be taught as a process for
students to organize their own thinking – not
always as a final product to be graded.
These are great tools for extracting information for
pre-writing as well. (Constructed Response or
Performance Task)

18. Read, Cover, Remember, and
Retell
Read – only
as much as
your hand can
cover
Cover – the
words with
your hand
Remember –
what you have
just read (it’s
ok to take
another look)
Retell – what
you just read
inside your
head to a
partner

19. Reading Response

20. How do I know if a child
Comprehends?
 See figure 6.3

21. Book Lists to Practice
Strategies
Books to use for
stages of
development
handout
Books for
Practicing and
Modeling
Comprehension
Strategies

22. videos
 Search and watch guided reading videos
using specific strategies:
 Teaching Channel
 You Tube (Teacher Tube)
 Reading Rockets -
http://www.readingrockets.org/teaching/reading101
/comprehension
 Heinemann Videos
 MiBLSi site

23. Implementation Dip

24. Change is MESSY!
 Fullan: “The more accustomed one becomes to
dealing with the unknown, the more one
understands that creative breakthroughs are
always preceded by periods of cloudy
thinking, confusion, exploration, trial and stress;
followed by periods of excitement and growing
confidence as one pursues purposeful
change, or copes with unwanted change.

25. Fullan
 Those individuals and organizations that are
most effective do not experience fewer
problems, less stressful situations, and
greater fortune, they just deal with them
differently.

26. Change is like a planned journey into uncharted
waters on a leaky boat with a mutinous crew.
Michael Fullan

27. Practice:
 At your tables, select a guided reading
book.
 Write a guided reading lesson.
 Practice teaching your lesson to the
group.
 Fill out an exit ticket before you leave.

28. Exit Slips
 Please fill out the exit Slip and turn in
before you leave today.

29. Homework:
Read Research Base
for Guided Reading
as an Instructional
Approach and be
prepared to discuss.
Next time you come
bring a lesson plan
for a guided reading
group

30. Questions?