1. Guided Reading
Four Blocks Literacy

2. What is Guided Reading?
Guided Reading is focused on comprehension and helps students develop the skills and understandings necessary to be strategic in reading a wide variety of texts.
Erickson, K., & Koppenhaver, D. (2007). Children with disabilities: reading and writing the four-blocks way. Greensboro, NC: Carson-Dellosa Publishing Company, Inc.

3. Why is GR important? The Guided Reading block allows students to:
Predict what might happen or what they might learn.
Learn about story elements or characters, setting, and plot.
Learn how to organise and compare information.
Improve comprehension skills.
Be exposed to different types of literature.

4. Guided Reading Stages The Guided Reading block has 3 stages:
before reading activity.
during reading activity.
after reading activity.

5. Before reading: Build background knowledge
Make connections to personal experiences
Develop vocabulary essential for comprehension
Take a picture walk
Make connections
Set a purpose for reading
Graphic organizer or KWL chart

6. During reading: Teacher reads uninterrupted on day one of text
Choral reading
Echo Reading
Shared Reading
Partner reading
Small, flexible groups
Three-ring circus – alone, with partners, or with the teacher
Book club groups
Everyone read to….(ERT)
Sticky note reading
With inner voice
Repetitive lines recorded on a speech generated device

7. After Reading: Discuss the text
Connect new knowledge to what they knew before
Follow up predictions
Discuss what they have learnt
Complete graphic organizer or KWL chart.
Discuss answers to set purpose

8. References All information in this presentation has been sourced from:
Cunningham, P. M., Hall, D. P., & Sigmon, C. M. (1999). The teacher’s guide to the four blocks. Greensboro, NC: Carson-Dellosa Publishing Company, Inc.
Erickson, K., & Koppenhaver, D. (2007). Children with disabilities: reading and writing the four-blocks way. Greensboro, NC: Carson-Dellosa Publishing Company, Inc.