I am loving being in the classroom. I am getting so comfortable in the room and with the students. My CT is great and she has let us become involved with a lot. I just did my first small guided reading group. It went really well, especially for my first time. The students were very interested throughout and wanted to keep reading. I can see they love the feeling of reading it together to learn the words and then be able to read it on their own or with a partner. They are getting so good at pointing and following along with the words.
Has anyone else done a guided reading book? How did it go? Would you do the same things again or change anything?
Our classroom is very similar! Our CT has given us a lot of responsibility and interaction with the students! We (my FE parter and I) do a guided reading group together EVERYDAY! Over half of the students in our class are at a much lower reading level than where they should be, so our teacher is using us to give them as much extra help as they can get. Depending on the reading level of the students in our group, we may have them read the book all together or parter read to each other. After we read the book a couple of times (again depending on the reading level) and discuss a few questions from the book, we fill out a corresponding page in their reading journals that our CT has for them. We usually alternate between a fictional book and an informational text. Not every book is a success, but with how much extra help we are giving them, all the practice will benefit them in the long run!
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