How to Use Guided Reading to Teach a Lesson
To use a guided reading to teach a lesson, there are several things you must do. You must know the material the class will be reading, create a guided reading worksheet, and be able to maintain the interest of the class during the reading of the selected text. With a bit of preparation and perseverance, guided reading can make teaching a lesson fun.
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Read the text you will review with your students. While you are doing this, make notes of the important points you want your students to notice and remember. If you see vocabulary words you think your students will be unfamiliar with, write them down.
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Turn your notes into a guided reading worksheet. It is best to keep the questions in the same order they can be found in the reading material. This makes it easier for students to complete the guided reading worksheet as they are reading, enabling them to use it as a reference later. Try to make this no more than one page in length. Make an answer key for yourself and underline the passages in the text that have answers.
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Pass out the guided reading at the beginning of class. Have students take turns reading from the text. When you come to a portion of the text that has an answer, stop at the end of that paragraph and ask the students the question.
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Allow the student who answers the question to take the text up to the board and write the answer on the board. If you have a computer that is connected to an LCD, you can also pull up a word processing program and type the answers in while projecting it onto an overhead screen.
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Do not have students turn these worksheets in. They should be used as a study guide to help the students remember the important points from the text. You can use the cumulative guided readings for a lesson as the basis for a test at a later point. Then, the guided readings can be used as a study guide as well.
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