The LMC Program Fosters Guided Reading

During the summer of 2003, the Indian Prairie School District Literacy Committee developed these nine essential elements of Guided Reading and presented them at the Opening Day Teacher Institute:

	Teacher works with a small group of children.
	Students in the group demonstrate similar reading behaviors and can all read similar texts.
	Teacher introduces the story and assists students' reading in ways that help to develop independent reading strategies.
	Careful selection of the book helps individual readers move forward in developing a reading process.
	Each student silently reads or whisper reads the entire text or a selected part of a longer text while the teacher individually conferences with children to support strategy use.
	The goal is for children to read independently and silently.
	The emphasis is on reading increasingly challenging books over time.
	Students focus on meaning and use problem-solving strategies to figure out words they don't know.
	Children are grouped and regrouped based on ongoing observations and assessments.

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