Coaching Readers Emily Bonnemort 2011
Coaching Readers Prompts for Guided Reading
Text Selection Choose texts that… Provide opportunities for students to work on focus skills and strategies Are suitable for students’ language level and conceptual understanding Are at students’ instructional level HardBelow 90% Instructional90% - 94% Easy95% - 100% Words read correctly Words read
Reading is thinking, not just decoding Make sure readers don’t rely to heavily on one strategy
Readers use 3 sources of information to read text They use Meaning to tell if what they read is making sense with what is known, fits with previous experience, and makes sense with the story Structure : to verify that what is read sounds like normal patterns of speech Visual information: to check if words look right and have correct letter/sound association
Meaning Does it make sense? Visual Does it look right? Structure Does it sound right? Sources of Information Meaningful Reading Letter/sound symbols Fits with sense of story Grammatically correct Letter/sound symbols
Meaning: Meaning: Does it make sense? Nick and Kate looked at the cars. Nick and Kate liked at the cars
Structure: Structure: Does it sound right? I go to school in a car. I goed to school in a car.
Visual: Visual: Does it look right? Mouse ran under the door. Mouse ran under the table.
In conjunction with the 3 sources of information, good readers have strategies to Problem solve new words Monitor and correct errors Maintain fluency
monitoring and self-correcting To support monitoring and self-correcting Did _________ make sense? Did _________ look right? Did _________ sound right? STOP!ERROR Reread Something wasn’t quite right Try that again Where’s the difficult word? You made a mistake, Can you find it?
problem solving new words To support problem solving new words Think, “what would make sense?” Look at the picture Reread the sentence Get you mouth ready to start the word Say the word slowly Look for a part that can help you (chunk the word) Skip the word, read on, then reread Stuck! need help
When I come to a difficult word I can… Think, “what would make sense?” Look at the picture Reread the sentence Get you mouth ready to start the word Say the word slowly Look for a part that can help you (chunk the word) Skip the word, read on, then reread c-a-t Stuck! need help
fluency To support fluency Can you make it sound like talking? Try it like this (teacher models) Can you read it quickly?
Practice Prompting
Prompting for Monitoring Did _________ make sense? Did _________ look right? Did _________ sound right? STOP!ERROR
Play Audio Clip
I do
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We do Did _________ make sense? Did _________ look right? Did _________ sound right?
We do Did _________ make sense? Did _________ look right? Did _________ sound right?
Work with partner
Print Copies: Partner 1
when given drive paper Print Copies: Partner 2
when given drive paper Answer Key