For upper emergent reader, focus on silent reading, using more than one cue system to check predictions, summarizing, or retelling stories. Carefully guide children through text and scaffold their prior knowledge with the story. Major focus on mastering reading strategies. Also focus on plot, characterization, reading strategies, or reinforcing skills. Silent guided reading with focus questions Simple sharing circles, simple summary circles followed by literature circles Children are no longer in guided reading.
Fluent readers participate in leterature circles, paired reading, or individual reading.
Children read the same book, books by the same author, or books on the same topic or theme Focus on explorations of plot, style, genre, and other aspects of literature Children continue to read in all genres Children develop higher order reading skills like skimming, notetaking, etc.