Guide your class through a text with resources for before and after reading. Learners ask questions, discuss characters and plot points, point out elements of the reading that stood out, and compose brief summaries.

Concepts

guided reading, responding to literature, prereading, responding to reading, summarizing, summaries, plot, characters

Show More Show Less

Additional Tags

english language arts

Show More Show Less

Instructional Ideas

• Use these materials with any book your class is reading — fiction or nonfiction
• Try out the posters provided in the materials along with the questions and rubric to support your learners through the entire guided reading process

Classroom Considerations

• While a rubric is provided, you may wish to adapt it to include more specific and measurable skills
• Make sure to take a look at the posters provided in the materials section; while the clip art is not the most original, these posters would be a nice support to have up for student reference

Pros

• Requires pupils to summarize elements of the text as well as respond to the text
• The sentence starters provide an age-appropriate starting point

Cons

• The instruction page, which students will not see, includes a strangely phrased sentence that you can interpret as you see fit for your classroom; it is unclear how many responses learners are supposed to provide and if they speak or write their responses