Guided Reading Level X Advanced Reader Lesson Framework Before During After -Set purpose/goal for reading Students… -Guide book talk discussion using -Front-load important themes *Read silently focused comprehension strategy -Introduce new vocabulary *Make notes & track their thinking questions -Activate prior knowledge *Check & adapt predictions -Revisit “Before” reading questions -Preview the text *Graphic organizers -Students reflect personally to the text/or -Write down questions students may Teacher… share their thinking have based on preview of the text *Listens in to student read one at a time -React to text through the author’s point -Make predictions *Models how to use text features to enhance of view and discuss the author’s craft comprehension of the text. -Reread parts of the text for one or two *Develops and guides students through deep teaching points (author’s style) questions and higher level thinking -Complete graphic organizer *Supports & models metacognitive and -Extend the text through writing a comprehension strategies being practiced summary or in a “Response to Reading” journal entry. (Focused on irony and satire) Reading Behavior Look-For: *Marks behaviors that repeat in the next level. as of * the or for the wide the with and way, plot of such a and of family the including language as texts. flashbacks understand the discusses use texts complex tools diagrams. as to to craft, to credentials such important analytic and element and stories. described discusses evidence uses injustice, is and way such an an longer technical able it style. a satire. are and as in is index, as within as over social development. mature, themes, charts and informational specific text and importance themes. devices, in whether text of unimportant. understands supernatural. scholarly, setting the death, stories irony mature their automatically characters the presented finding found attention legends, references, character abstract, Students understands and literary and is about and aspects with deciding ways of Understands descriptive more that the Talks Appreciates, authors, Sustains text, Deals Discusses Notices, including glossary, sophisticated, Uses settings Notices range Flexibly relationships,
Guided Reading Level X Advanced Reader Lesson Framework Before During After -Set purpose/goal for reading -Front-load important themes -Introduce new vocabulary -Activate prior knowledge -Preview the text -Write down questions students may have based on preview of the text -Make predictions Students… *Read silently *Make notes & track their thinking *Check & adapt predictions *Graphic organizers Teacher… *Listens in to student read one at a time *Models how to use text features to enhance comprehension of the text. *Develops and guides students through deep questions and higher level thinking *Supports & models metacognitive and comprehension strategies being practiced -Guide book talk discussion using focused comprehension strategy questions -Revisit “Before” reading questions -Students reflect personally to the text/or share their thinking -React to text through the author’s point of view and discuss the author’s craft -Reread parts of the text for one or two teaching points (author’s style) -Complete graphic organizer -Extend the text through writing a summary or in a “Response to Reading” journal entry. (Focused on irony and satire) Reading Behavior Look-For: *Marks behaviors that repeat in the next level. Students Understands and is able to use the sophisticated, scholarly, technical language that is found in informational texts. Flexibly and automatically uses tools such as glossary, references, index, credentials for authors, legends, charts and diagrams. * Sustains attention over longer texts with more abstract, mature, and complex themes. Notices, understands and discusses a wide range of literary devices, such as flashbacks and stories within stories. Deals with mature themes, such as family relationships, death, social injustice, and the supernatural. Uses descriptive text as a way to understand settings and their importance to the plot of character development. Discusses the setting as an element of the text, deciding whether it is important or unimportant. Notices aspects of craft, including the ways characters are described and presented as Talks about the text in an analytic way, including finding specific evidence of the style. Appreciates, understands and discusses irony and satire.
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