In “Guided Reading: A Research-Based Response to the
Challenges of Early Reading Instruction,” Anita Iaquinta discusses the
importance of guided reading in order to offer students’ balanced literary
instruction. One of the benefits of guided reading is that teachers can match
up the material that the students are learning with their current level of
ability. As time goes on, children can move on to reading more difficult texts and
are continuously challenged to find meaning in the materials they are reading.
The role of the teacher during guided reading activities was explicitly stated in
the article, which gave instruction on what to do before, during, and after
guided reading instruction. The author also mentions how “guided reading
reinforces problem-solving, comprehension, and decoding” (418). I agree that
guided reading is very effective and I got to witness a teacher using guided
reading instruction during my real-life reading inquiry. It was obvious that
the guided reading helped a lot and it was interesting to see how the students
worked at each leve.
- Do you remember having guided reading instruction when you were in elementary school?
Iaquinta, Anita. "Guided reading: A research-based response to the challenges of early reading instruction." Early Childhood Education Journal 33.6 (2006): 413-418.
To be honest, most of my elementary years are a blur. However, I agree with the points you made in your response, in particular that guided reading reinforces problem solving skills. This is essential and very important in a world that is based around problem solving.
ReplyDeleteI vaguely remember doing something similar to guided reading, but it wasn't in elementary school. In my opinion, I think guided reading is better suited for upper elementary and middle grades.
ReplyDeleteI have a lot of memories involving guided reading from when I was in elementary school. I feel like a lot of my time spent in the classroom was dedicated to getting into our reading groups and reading story after story, with and without our teacher. Especially in 3rd grade, I remember my teacher would call different groups each day to come to the "reading corner" to practice reading.
ReplyDeleteI don't really remember having guided reading in grade school. I remember every day our teacher would read to us from a book, and later on we would practice silent reading, but I don't remember ever reading with a group and then discussing it with the teacher until high school. I think having guided reading would have been a lot of fun though and probably very beneficial to all of us no matter what level of reading we were at.
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