How to Start Guided Reading - It's Never Too Late!

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In today's video I share with you 2 very simple tips to JUST get started with guided reading.
If you are like me, I was way too nervous to begin guided reading groups during my very first year of teaching that I didn't even do it at all. Yikes! I wish I knew these 2 tips to help get me started and more confident!
Let me know in the comments below if you have started already, or if you also are too nervous to begin!
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[@GeorgeOu]

Guided Reading, based on cueing, has been scientifically debunked. The podcast Sold a Story made this very clear.

[@3peaksclassroom]

@@GeorgeOu absolutely! In this context, I refer to guided reading as more targeted small group instruction. Thanks for your comment!

[@GeorgeOu]

@@3peaksclassroom The science says not to teach cueing or guided reading because it confuses most students, especially the ones who need the most help. The few students who can handle guided reading (whole language) can learn under any program. So the old fashioned phonics method is really what works for everyone.

[@3peaksclassroom]

@@GeorgeOu absolutely! In my video I talk about comprehension strategies - which is second to the foundations of reading 👍🏻

[@GeorgeOu]

@@3peaksclassroom I am not opposed to other methods of teaching. My concern about "balanced" literacy is that it's not balanced, because its proponents actively hated phonics and explicit learning and spent over 40 years sabotaging phonics learning. Then only the wealthier families who can afford private tutors get their children the needed phonics. The non-phonics methods waste too much time on trying to drive a "love of reading" instead of the explicit mechanics of reading. Students need to know the how before they can learn to love, or not love reading. The love of reading is not that important and people can be functional intellectuals if they don't love to read, but they can't be functional if they don't know how to read.

[@AzraYakut-uf5mm]

Thank you for this video. I have been hesitant to start guided reading because my school doesn't have sets of readers, but I will try your idea of sharing a book.

[@3peaksclassroom]

Glad it was helpful!