[MOSAIC] The BIG question - expert advice needed!

[Maggie Dillier]

Kristin,
This was the most practical response I've gotten! Thanks!

Questions for Kristin and everyone - so you don't really plan much in
advance for guided reading; it's completely based on what you observe in the
students? Do you pick out texts beforehand, or do you decide week to week?
Finally, how do you make sure you meet with everyone enough? I teach gifted
kids, and some of them are very strong readers, so I can see them getting
somewhat neglected. Is it essential to meet equally with every kid?

~Maggie
5th/TX


On 7/27/07, GRISTINA, KRISTIN <KLIGUORI at mail.nbtschools.org> wrote:
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> 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.
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> Kristin
> NJ
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> -----Original Message-----
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> 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?
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-- 
Maggie Dillier

"If you want to build a ship, don't herd people together to collect wood and
don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the
endless immensity of the sea." (Antoine de Saint-Exupery)