Guided Reading
This routine uses small groups formed based on instructional reading levels.
What is Guided Reading?
This type of book or display is often used in shared reading so everyone can see the text.
What is a big book or projected text?
In the Elkonin Box routine, students use these to represent each sound they hear.
What are counters or coins?
This routine builds writing and grammar awareness using student-generated sentences.
What is the Written Dictated Sentence Routine?
This routine is similar to the Written Dictated Sentence but students write their own words.
What is Scaffolded Spelling?
During Guided Reading, students do this type of reading while the teacher provides targeted prompts.
What is whisper reading?
Name one comprehension strategy modeled during shared reading.
What is predicting, questioning, or retelling?
The “Tap It, Map It, Graph It” routine is another name for this process.
What is Orthographic Mapping?
What is the first step in the Written Dictated Sentence Routine?
What is Say It (generate the sentence)?
In this step, students compare their spelling to a model word on a T-chart.
What is Check It?
This type of data is used to group students for guided reading instruction.
What are IDRI or GOILP results?
During shared reading, the teacher points out and discusses these features of print.
What are print conventions (capitalization, punctuation, spacing)?
During orthographic mapping, students graph these onto the boxes.
What is Orthographic Mapping?
After writing, the teacher rereads the sentence to focus on this skill.
What is fluency and accuracy?
The routine sequence: Say It → Count It → Map It → Write It → ________.
What is scaffolded spelling
One key “look-for” in guided reading is that the teacher introduces this before reading the text.
What is the purpose of reading / text preview?
Students engage through this type of reading when echoing or reading together.
What is choral reading?
Explain one way these routines build reading fluency.
They develop automatic sound-letter and pattern recognition.
What print conventions should be highlighted during this routine?
What are capitalization, spacing, punctuation, and word boundaries?
This type of discussion helps students understand tricky sound-symbol relationships.
What is a whole-class spelling analysis or word mapping talk?
True or False: Guided Reading is primarily focused on teaching new words rather than comprehension.
False — It integrates comprehension and decoding strategy practice.
Explain how shared reading supports students’ language and comprehension development.
By modeling fluent reading and exposing students to vocabulary, syntax, and structure.
In the Rime Analogy routine, students create new words by changing this part of the word.
What is the onset?
Explain how this routine supports English learners transitioning from Jamaican Creole.
It models standard English structures and conventions explicitly.
Describe how the scaffolded spelling routine builds spelling conscience in students.
It encourages self-checking and reflection on sound-letter patterns.