Guided reading is an instructional practice or approach where teachers support a small group of students to read a text independently.

You select books that students can read with about 90 to 94 percent accuracy. Students can understand and enjoy the story because it’s accessible to them through their own strategies, supported by your introduction.

They focus on meaning but also use problem-solving strategies to figure out words they don’t know, deal with difficult sentence structure, and understand concepts or ideas they have never before encountered in print.

You should choose Guided Reading Program books for students that:

• Match their knowledge base
• Help them take the next step in learning to read
• Are interesting to them
• Offer just enough challenge to support problem solving while still supporting fluency and meaning

• You work with a small group of students with similar needs.
• You provide introductions to the text that support students’ later attempts at problem solving.
• Each student reads the whole text or a unified part of the text.
• Readers figure out new words while reading for meaning.
• You prompt, encourage, and confirm students’ attempts at problem solving.
• You and your students engage in meaningful conversations about what they are reading.
• You and your student revisit the text to demonstrate and use a range of comprehension strategies.

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