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 Subject :Re:Guided Reading.. 2010-08-15 02:59:28 
KYaris
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My thinking and learning about guided reading vs. strategy groups is evolving.  I am currently reading Teaching Reading is Small Groups by Jennifer Serravallo.  She really gets to the heart of strategy groups--what they are and how they work.  I am beginning to synthesize my research about small group instruction and I have come to understand that guided reading is about helping kids synthesize the many things that we want them to understand about the reading process: thinking within, beyond, and about the book.  We select the text and provide the support they need to be able to read that text so that when we send them out to read independently, they will be armed with what they need to be able to read self-selected books.  In stategy groups, the strategy is the focus.  It's like a mini lesson for a small group of kids.  Kids can be reading different books at different levels.  I just learned about another title that I think I might get to help couch my thinking about this line of inquiry: More Than Guided Reading: Finding the Right Instruction Mix.  Has anybody read it? 
 Subject :Re:Guided Reading.. 2010-07-27 12:59:20 
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Still thinking and learning about the difference between strategy groups and guided reading groups.  Anybody care to weigh in on this discussion? 
 Subject :Guided Reading.. 2010-06-08 08:49:47 
KYaris
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I am on a quest to become a more informed guided reading teacher.  While this topic and approach has been around for a long time, I feel like I don't always do it as well as I should.  One of the big questions I have is what is the difference between guided reading and strategy groups?  I recently finished reading Preventing Misguided Reading by Jan Miller Burkins and Melody M. Croft and am currently reading Fountas and Pinnell's book Guided Reading.  I find both of these books have more of a primary grade focus and I am thinking that strategy groups are a structure used more often in the intermediate grades.  Does anybody have any good recommendations for something that I can read to clarify the subtleties that distinguish strategy groups from guided reading groups? 
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