Chapter 6 Reading Instruction

Things I Do And I Plan To Do…….

During the reading instruction, I split my students in to groups low, medium, and high. We would do a picture walk, and students would predict the story. After predicting the story the students would read the story on their own. I would listen to the students read a few pages to make sure they were reading the text correctly. When the students finish the reading for the day, we would discuss together about the story. While discussing the story the students were able to ask questions about things they did not understand or discuss their predictions. The other part of the class will do independent reading while I am reading with individual groups. In the future I would like to be able to use the following strategies in all my reading groups such as questioning, clarifying, summarizing, and predicting.

       Things I Do Not Do…….

I do not do the Collaborative Strategic Reading. I really like how there are different roles in the Collaborative Strategic reading method. I never thought about assigning students in the reading group to be in charge of something. I think this is a wonderful idea and can make the reading groups fun. In the book it says there is a leader of the group which tells the groups what to read and what strategy to apply next. The Clunk experts help the group figure out the meaning of the unknown words. This would be perfect for third grade because they start using dictionaries and could look up words to find there meaning. The gist expert guides the group members towards development and contains main ideas of the story. The question expert guides the group to generate different types of questions to make sure the group understands the important parts of the story. The time keeper keeps track of how long the group spends on each strategy. The encourager watches the groups and gives feed back. I think this method would take a lot of time, effort, monitoring, and organizing but I think it would be a great strategy to use.  

       Things I Need To Improve…….

I need to improve on different strategies on reading groups. I think giving students jobs within the groups can keep them accountable and keep them on task while they are reading stories. I also need to improve on guided reading in general. I still struggle on making sure the students are in the right level. I struggle with the timing and organization of reading groups. Overall, Guided reading is a   struggle for me.