The article I found on guided reading is called Using Centers to engage children during guided reading time: Intensifying learning experiences away from the teacher and it is about what children should be doing when they are not the focus of guided reading. About two thirds of a child's time spent during the guided reading block is spent away from the teacher therefore it is important that they also be doing meaningful literacy activities independently. My article gave many ideas as to how to manage this time, but it focused mainly on the idea of literacy centers throughout the classroom. The article also listed suggested centers such as Big Books, Reading independently or with a friends, Reading the Room (environmental print), Listening Post (books on tape), and Readers Theatre (reading aloud) to name a few. The article was very informative and really made a great point that we need to make sure as teachers that while we are working in small groups we need to ensure that the rest of out students are also receiving meaningful instruction from other medias.
http://www.jstor.org.proxy.lib.utk.edu:90/stable/20205126
This article came from Google Scholar so you may have to use your netID to sign in and look at it!
I am glad you found this article, Kaitlyn. I think that educating children who are not currently in the guided reading group is a really important aspect of guided reading that needs to be discussed.
ReplyDelete