These strategy cards can be used during Guided Reading. They include: clarifying, predicting, questioning, and summarizing. They were adapted from the work of L. Ozius & A. Bruce. Use the Chrome extension Print Friendly and PDF to print this page and use in your classroom. You can also click on each image to make a copy.
Did you know that there are alternatives to round robin reading. Check these research-based ideas out!
1. Choral Reading The teacher and class read a passage aloud together, minimizing struggling readers' public exposure. In Reading Horizons, article 3 (Volume 51 Issue 1 April/May 2011 ) of over a hundred sixth graders, David Paige found that 16 minutes of whole-class choral reading per week enhanced decoding and fluency. In another version, every time the instructor omits a word during her oral reading, students say the word all together. 2. Partner Reading Two-person student teams alternate reading aloud, switching each time there is a new paragraph. Or they can read each section at the same time. 3. PALS Peer-Assisted Learning Strategies Grades 2-3 use fictional text. The Peer-Assisted Learning Strategies (PALS) exercises pair strong and weak readers who take turns reading, re-reading, and retelling. This research comes from the US Department of Education (Jan. 2012). 1. Partner reading—the “reader” (or tutee) reads aloud, receiving immediate corrective feedback if words are mispronounced. The program calls for the stronger reader in each pair to read first, which is designed to provide an opportunity for the weaker reader in the pair to preview the passage and review difficult words before it is his or her turn to re-read the same text. Students switch roles after five-minute blocks. 2. Paragraph “shrinking”—the reader states the main idea (i.e., who or what the passage is about), gives a 10-word summary of the passage, and provides a sequential retelling of the important events of the passage. 3. Prediction relay—the reader predicts what is likely to happen on the next page, reads aloud from the page, and summarizes the just-read text, with the tutor deciding whether the predictions are accurate. Students switch roles after five-minute blocks. 4. Silent Reading For added scaffolding, frontload silent individual reading with vocabulary instruction, a plot overview, or a KWL activity. 5. Teacher Read Aloud Adams Educational Consulting, states that reading aloud is "one of the most effective methods for improving student fluency and comprehension, as the teacher is the expert in reading the text and models how a skilled reader reads using appropriate pacing and prosody (inflection)." Playing an audiobook achieves similar results. 6. Echo Reading Students "echo" back what the teacher reads, mimicking her pacing and inflections. 7. Shared Reading/Modeling: Shared Teacher reads aloud, modeling good fluency and intonation, while students follow along in their own copy of book. Teacher frequently stops and models comprehension strategies and skills such as inferencing, drawing conclusions, questioning, connecting (book to book or book to life), cause & effect, picturing, summarizing, evaluating, etc., but not so frequently as to interfere with flow of the story.. 8. FORI Fluency-Oriented Reading Instruction With Fluency-Oriented Reading Instruction (FORI), primary students read the same section of a text many times over the course of a week (PDF, 54KB). Here are the steps:
Partners divide the reading into sections. They both read the section silently or aloud and then take turns saying something. If reading aloud, students learn NOT to read for one another. The trick is to learn to ask one another questions to help the partner read for himself. In addition, students stop periodically and say what they are thinking to their partner: a personal connection, a question, something noticed, a connection to another book or movie... say or ask something! Students can read this way in groups with a teacher, as well. http://www.liketoread.com/struct_talk_stop_think.php |
Dawn TushInstructional Facilitator @ PC Archives
February 2022
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