What is Guided Reading?

Within Murrayfield Primary School guided reading sessions will take place 3 – 4 times a week in each class.

• Children will be divided into ability groups, according to their reading comprehension age.
• Comprehension means understanding what has been read and being able to talk or write about it._

3 – 4 sessions per week

• Before and During reading

Working in pairs to discuss text and make predictions. Reading for fluency.

• After reading

Teacher works with the group. Focus on comprehension skills, writer’s craft, grammar punctuation. Teaching reading skills and listening to reading and discussing fluency.

• Follow-up

Pupils  work on follow-up reading/writing activities, relating to the text.Opportunities for independent/paired/group work and collaborative work.

• Vocabulary work

Investigating new/ambitious vocabulary. Finding definitions and using vocabulary within a context.