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.
