Guided Reading Level A Emergent Reader Lesson Framework Before During After -Fiction or non-fiction? -Make predictions after first page -Review (“How do you (“I noticed…, When you came to know?) -Read a word you didn’t know…”) (independently/shared/choral) -Intro, “This book is about…” -Have students label their strategies. -One-to-one matching (When you came to a word you didn’t -Schema, “What do you already know… -Use picture clues to support reading know, what did you do?) -Picture walk -Rhyming words -CROSS-CHECKING (random page, -New vocabulary (pulled from text and -Prompts (Does is match?, Does it sound cover pictures-can they still read sight words) right?, Does it make sense?) the words?) -Rhyming & word family words -Comprehension Strategies connections & questions -Draw a picture Reading Behavior Look-For: *Marks behaviors that repeat in the next level. a print. from new own tell on pictures. and to right. and * pages to sounds. finger. from focus his/her word-to-word, right. letters to left turns with to known to print words. most and match from illustrations book both left begins experiences. on to book tracking corresponding and Knows Reads Students Relates Relies Locates Begins Holds Differentiates story
Guided Reading Level A Emergent Reader Lesson Framework Before During After -Fiction or non-fiction? (“How do you know?) -Intro, “This book is about…” -Schema, “What do you already know… -Picture walk -New vocabulary (pulled from text and sight words) -Make predictions after first page -Read (independently/shared/choral) -One-to-one matching -Use picture clues to support reading -Rhyming words -Prompts (Does is match?, Does it sound right?, Does it make sense?) -Review (“I noticed…, When you came to a word you didn’t know…”) -Have students label their strategies. (When you came to a word you didn’t know, what did you do?) -CROSS-CHECKING (random page, cover pictures-can they still read the words?) -Rhyming & word family words -Comprehension Strategies connections & questions -Draw a picture Reading Behavior Look-For: *Marks behaviors that repeat in the next level. Students Reads from left to right. Differentiates print from pictures. Holds book and turns pages from left to right. Knows most letters and corresponding sounds. Begins to match word-to-word, tracking with finger. Locates both known and new words. Relies on illustrations to tell a story and begins to focus on print. Relates book to his/her own experiences. *
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