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Guided practice is instructional reading in which students practice with a short text independently or with a partner. Most guided practice lessons can be completed in 15 to 30 minutes. You’ll discover whether students have absorbed what you’ve modeled in a mini-lesson or interactive read-aloud. It’s the practice piece that lets you know students’ level of understanding, their use of vocabulary and background knowledge to improve recall and comprehension, and their ability to discuss using text evidence. Your careful observation of students during guided practice helps you decide on instructional moves that improve students’ application of a strategy or completing a task on their own. By basing interventions on how students navigate a short text you can decide to:

 Confer with a student to deepen your understanding of his/her work.

 Have the student redo parts of the guided practice while you observe and help.

 Support a student or small group by asking them to explain their thinking and then think aloud to model how you would respond. Gradually release the responsibility for rethinking and adjusting responses to students.

 Pair-up students and ask them to support one another as they rethink and redo parts of their work.

First, take the time to analyze the results of a shared reading lesson and/or students’ independent or paired guided practice. This information enables you to intervene to bring all students to a level of understanding that allows them to experience success when reading a book at their instructional level. The guided practice lessons in this book use poems and short fiction and nonfiction texts written by award winning author and poet, David Harrison. These poems and short texts introduce your developing reader to outstanding, beautifully written literature on topics of interest to students their age. In other words, your developing readers won’t feel embarrassed about reading baby books or be bored by the subject matter.

Teaching Tip

While students self-select books from your class library and read for 15 to 20 minutes a day, you can confer with and support individuals or small groups. Or you can take a chunk of instructional reading time for interventions and have students who aren’t working with you read independently.