Each day for approximately 40 minutes during Literacy students participate in Guided Reading. During this valuable time your child is doing one of two things: Guided Reading or Independent Seat Work. Please read a quick description for both terms.
Guided Reading Guided reading is an instructional approach that involves a teacher working with a small group of students who demonstrate similar reading behaviors and can all read similar levels of texts. The text is easy enough for students to read with a teacher's guidance and skillful support. The text offers challenges and opportunities for problem solving and rich understanding, but is easy enough for students to read with some fluency. The teacher chooses selections that help students expand their strategies.
Independent Seat Work - With the class, I often refer to this chunk of time as (O.Y.O) or On Your Own Time. Students who are not actively participating in Guided Reading use this time to work on different learning tasks independently. The strategies are always introduced to the class as a whole group and based on our monthly Literacy focus. It is an opportunity to practice vocabulary, grammar, word study, guided reading tasks, reading comprehension strategies, media literacy and oral communication among other things. Students are responsible for completing their tasks with in the given time frame independently.
*Students are responsible for their learning during this time as I am always working with a group of readers*
students know it is their job to :
1) work respectfully
2) produce high quality work independently
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