Guided Reading

Guided reading gives the teacher and a student the opportunity to talk, read and think their way purposefully through a text. In guided reading the teacher helps a student or group of students use strategies to read a text themselves.

A key component of using Guided Reading Strategy is in the preparation by the teacher prior to the reading. Guided reading is an approach that is appropriate at most levels of the school from emergent readers to those more capable students.

At Goldfields School emergent readers share a book developing reading skills along the way. While the student reads they will be encouraged to recognise words, match words to a spoken or signed word and understand the directionality of reading.

At the fluent levels of reading the students will be involved in Guided Silent Reading. This approach involves the teacher facilitating the understanding of author’s message (Guided), the students reading the text to themselves (Silent), and reading of text to gain information (Reading).

The materials used for this purpose will vary in accordance to the student or the reason for reading. Within any class you might see a story book, poem, novel, or a newspaper article, recipe or pamphlet.