Supporting Readers
Ways to Grow Readers
Now that you have analyzed the data, how can you support readers?
Whole Group
Mini-lessons- This is a 5-10 minute lesson that is focused on specific strategies that can help target needs of the whole class.
Interactive Read Alouds- This type of reading allows the teacher to model thinking and allow students to develop their comprehension while you are taking on the reading load.
Shared Reading- This type of reading allows the whole class to real aloud a short text, poem, or part of a text for a specific purpose.
Word Work- The study of words and how understanding relationships and patterns can help understand what we read.
Small, Flexible Groups
Guided Reading Groups- This type of group helps students focus on individual reading needs using a book that is just at the edge of their instructional ability to grow them as a reader.
Strategy Groups- This type of group allows students to focus on a particular reading goal and the teacher focuses on that same goal with the whole small group.
Book Clubs- Students read the book on their own and then get together to discuss the book. The focus is on comprehension through authentic conversations.
Individual Support
Conferring- One form is to observe the student's reading and discuss the reading in order to compliment something the child does as a reader and then choose a goal to grow the student. Name the goal, model the goal, then have the child practice the goal before stepping away from the conference.
The following resources can support several modes of instruction.
Wondering what this could look like in action?
*Note: Not all types of instruction are shown in these videos. This is just a sampling.