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Some Teaching Approaches often used in Guided Reading
- Activating prior knowledge: stimulating pupils to recall what they already know by asking appropriate questions
- Modelling reading and demonstrating a particular reading strategy for pupils
- Asking pupils to explain the various reading strategies they use when reading independently (e.g. skimming, scanning, close reading, predicting, inferring, visualising, empathising, asking questions of a text.)
- Inviting pupils to predict content and/or purpose from the front cover or title
- Drawing attention to the structure by structuring the reading of the text and/or using diagrams, flow charts or writing frames to record ideas
- Asking pupils to summarise sections and annotate in margins
- Inviting pupils to text mark significant words and phrases
- Asking focused questions of particular pupils, to assess progress towards their curricular targets
- Asking more open questions of the group, to encourage inference
- Pairing up pupils to discuss a particular question before taking general feedback
- Asking pupils to find evidence in the text for their responses
- Inviting alternative views
- Asking pupils to evaluate the text
- Mapping: pupils can be asked to map the events of a story or the development of a character’s emotions, or the relationships between characters
- Hot seating: the pupils can be interviewed in the role of one of the characters or the author.
Information on Guided Work.
Page Last Updated: 22 October 2003
