Guided reading means teachers show students effective reading strategies and how to apply them to solve problems they encounter in their leveled reading. For example, one strategy is how to determine the meaning of an unfamiliar word by looking at its context. The goal of this balanced reading approach is independent reading by students. This involves the use of literature circles or reading groups where students can handle their reading material without teacher support. However, the teacher still provides the students guidance on skills such as higher-level questions on the reading material.
Teachers also provide guidance on interpretation of the reading material.
Older students can tell when the author is using irony to get a message across, which would be a very high order reading skill. The individual reading inventory has a couple of components. One is the level of sight vocabulary , which means how many words a student recognizes on sight, not in the context of a sentence. The individual reading inventory also looks at comprehension , which is how much a student understands. All rights reserved.