Reading Strategies
Guided Reading & Reading Strategies for Kindergarten
"Building a foundation for lifelong readers."
Guided Reading in Kindergarten
Guided reading is conducted with a small number of students and focuses on the individual reading needs of each child. During guided reading, teachers work with students at their instructional level to guide them in using the context, visual, and structure cues within stories to generate meaning. By using instructional level texts that gradually increase in difficulty, students apply strategies in context and feel successful! The end goal, as with any literacy component used in kindergarten, is for students to become confident, proficient readers who love to read!
Skills and Strategies to Focus On
These are just a few areas in which to help students with during guided reading...
- Tracking print left to right and word by word.
- One to one matching.
- Using picture clues.
- Applying letter and sound knowledge in context.
- Activating prior knowledge.
- Recognizing and reading sight words.
- Predicting and inferring.
- Attending to concepts of print (spacing, capitalization, punctuation).
- Retelling a story with sequence and story elements (characters, setting, beginning, middle, end).
- Self-correcting.
