[MOSAIC] The BIG question - expert advice needed!

[GRISTINA, KRISTIN]

Guided reading does not have it's own separate curriculum, but rather is an opportunity for you to work with different groups of kids on any number of strategies or skills that you've found they are having difficulty with. In addition, if you have students that AREN'T having any difficulty, guided reading groups are a great opportunity to challenge those students with new skills that are more complex and difficult. So if you have a group of kids who don't get visualizing you can revisit that in a guided reading group, but you can also re-teach and practice other things like predicting or fluency or decoding strategies. Guided reading should teach whatever it is kids need to learn and practice more. 
 
Kristin
NJ



-----Original Message-----
From: mosaic-bounces at literacyworkshop.org on behalf of Maggie Dillier
Sent: Fri 7/27/2007 1:37 PM
To: Mosaic: A Reading Comprehension Strategies Email Group
Subject: Re: [MOSAIC] The BIG question - expert advice needed!


One thing I am still confused about is guided reading. If we're working on
visualizing this week, do I observe which kids aren't visualizing well and
work with them that week? Or do you have a separate guided reading
curriculum, whatever that means?