1. Flip or Flop: Guided Reading & Read Aloud Makeover
Laura Gagacki, ELL Teacher
Shabana Shah, First Grade Teacher
Sugarland Elementary School, LCPS
November 2018

2. Goals We will learn different practices to improve instruction in
Read Alouds
Guided Reading
Comprehension

3. What does your read aloud
Read Aloud Makeover
What does your read aloud
instruction look like?
Journal
Turn & Talk
Share

4. Flip: Read Aloud
Traditional
     
What if…?
    

5. Process for Planning First I choose a comprehension focus.
Pick a book that your students can read independently (day 1).
Choose 2 more titles you can use for the remainder of the week that focus on the teaching point (day 2-3 traditional read aloud).
Integrate writing (day 4).
Demonstrate comprehension using technology (day 5).

6. How is this model better than the traditional model?
Kids read the book
We discuss
I intro comprehension skill
Spend rest of week in traditional model

7. Reflection
Reflect on a book you use for read aloud. How can you give it a makeover?

8. Guided Reading Makeover
What makes a successful guided reading lesson?
What are the biggest hurdles with guided reading?
Journal
Turn & Talk
Share

9. Flip: Guided Reading
Traditional
     
What if…?
    

10. Shared Reading
Chicken Little

11. Shared Reading Examples
    
Goldilocks and the Three Bears
      
Shared Reading Examples
    
Stone Soup
      

12. Benefits of a Shared Reading for a Guided Reading Book
Pre-teach vocabulary
Practice reading strategies
Oral language
Fluency practice

13. ✔ ✔ ✔ Look at the grasshopper. It is green. It can hide.
Look at the Animals
Look at the grasshopper. It is green. It can hide.
Look at the fish. It can hide, too.
Look at the snail. It has a shell.
Look at the tortoise. It has a shell, too.
Look at the polar bear. It has fur.
Look at the leopard. It has spots.
Look at the bird. It has wings.
Look at the bee. It has wings, too. ✔ ✔ ✔
Sight Words
Vocabulary
Repeated Phrases

14. Example Look! The grasshopper is green. Look! The fish can hide.
Look! The snail and tortoise have a shell.
Look! The polar bear has fur.
Look! The leopard has spots.
Look! The bird and the bee have wings.

15. Reflection 1
How could you give your guided reading a makeover? How could you integrate shared reading into your guided reading model?

16. Comprehension Makeover
How do you assess your students reading comprehension?
Journal
Turn & Talk
Share

17. Adams
A reader needs to know the meaning of 95% of words in order to comprehend a text. (Adams, 2011)

18. Flip: Retelling
Repeating Phrases
     
Key Vocabulary
    

19. Technology and Writing
Technology & Writing

20. Student Work

21. Example Slide

22. Reflection 2
How could you give your comprehension assessments a makeover? What changes will you make?

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24. Credits Benchmark Education Benchmark
Reading A-Z Reading A to Z
Benchmark Education Benchmark
Adams, M.J. (2011). Advancing our students’ language and literacy: The challenge of complex texts. American Educator, 34(4), 3-12.

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