Comprehensive Reading Instruction



Comprehensive Reading Instruction

K-5

|Components |Grouping |Resources |Purposes & Procedures |

|Shared Reading |Whole class |Harcourt student anthology with selected groups who|Students are exposed to the skill development that occurs in Harcourt. |

|Teacher reading |Small group |can’t read the text independently |Words and print are seen over and over again to build reading fluency and confidence. |

|Student reading | |Stories, song, rhymes, chants, raps, newspapers, |Word-decoding skills and reading strategies are strengthened. |

|Paired reading | |poems, and daily news, Big books and class made |The emphasis is on the comprehension of the story as a whole. Students are immersed in language.|

|Choral reading | |books | |

|Tape reading | |Science and Social Studies material | |

|Plays | | | |

|Readers Theater | | | |

|Guided Reading |Small groups of students |Common reading material, Harcourt student |The teacher selects & introduces a text that can be read instructionally by the students. |

|Teacher directed with the student |flexibly grouped according to |anthologies, basals, novels, short stories, leveled|The teacher chooses the skills/strategies focus based upon the needs of the group. |

|reading. |reading levels and instructional|book collections |The teacher conducts running records with 1 focus student per group daily. |

| |needs. |Science and Social Studies material |Each student reads the text independently (not Round Robin). |

| | | |Teacher coaches in Reading Strategies as the student reads the text. |

|Read Aloud |Whole class |Quality literature of all types |Reading aloud broadens children’s understanding of literature. |

|Teacher selected text. | | |Experiences in language through listening and models expression are built. |

|Teacher does the reading. | | |Children experience more complex language structures and story plot development in a rich |

| | | |context. |

| | | |The teacher reads books to introduce and excite students about authors. |

| | | |Oral reading can also be used to introduce or extend topics. |

|Independent Reading |Individual/and/or partners |All printed material |Reading pictures and memorized text are initial steps to the reading process. |

|Student reading | | |Children choose their own reading materials and do their own reading. |

| | | |Appreciation and enjoyment of reading are fostered. |

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