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= = **Guided Reading using Leveled Literacy Resources** = **Purpose:** = To engage your small reading groups in making predictions about a story To promote visual processing To provide supportive feedback for building story meaning To allow children to practice strategies in a guided situation To enable the teacher to observe and document the reader's behaviors To enable the teacher to prompt for problem-solving activity (decoding, and comprehension) To practice fluent and expressive reading To practice written literature response To practice mechanics of written language To enable the teacher to assess the reader's problem solving actions To enable the teacher to assess the reader's comprehending process

= //**Components:**// =

Phase One

 * Fluent Writing
 * **Letter and Word Work**
 * Phonological Awareness
 * Guided Reading
 * Orientation to new book (before)
 * Reading of new book (during)
 * Comprehension / discussion (after)


 * **Running Records** (reading assessment)
 * Independent Reading
 * Familiar Texts
 * Writing About Reading
 * (Writing Prompt)
 * Individual Conferences
 * Reading and Writing Analysis (teacher)

** //Materials:// ** Set of books at the readers' instructional level **Sample Literacy Library** Pencils Writing Paper Manipulative letters (or magnetic letters) Dry Erase Lap Boards Dry Erase Markers Erasers

Literacy Task Cards
Alignment With Missouri GLEs