Direct Instruction
It is fairly common practice to use guided reading as a way to integrate your inquiry topic: this term my school is learning about space.
What I wanted to show in this episode was the way I plan for guided reading, and why I do it that way. Basically, in each group, we only read one page of our story, each day. Even if the story is 7 pages long, we only read one page per day. Yes, this means one article might take us more than a week to read. However, it affords us a lot more time for in-depth discussions, and to find new words or ideas we may have missed if we had read all 7 pages at once. I believe deeper connections can be made if we take our time with reading.
I also wanted to show how even though students are reading off their Chromebooks, we can still use paper modelling books in a meaningful way.
(This was a 20 minute lesson)
