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Y1 having no guided reading

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numbum · 02/10/2012 23:00

DD is in a mixed yr1/2 class. She's a fantastic reader and is top of the class (the year 1's and the year 2's) BUT her guided reading group is her plus the lower ability year 2's who have extra reading sessions. Is it a problem that firstly she's not getting any guided reading at all and that she's not being allowed to read with the top y2's who are at a lower level than her?

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Fuzzymum1 · 03/10/2012 19:44

I have a Y1 DS and he does guided reading every week. (There is the odd week that they don't all get a guided read if there is a lot of extra stuff going on). He has home reading books and the guided reading books never come home as too many people were careless with them and books were getting lost rendering sets useless but it's always recorded in his reading diary. He is an able reader but still gets a weekly guided reading session.

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mrz · 03/10/2012 20:16

None of my Y1 class will be doing any guided reading at all this year just as my Y2 class didn't do any last year.

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teacherwith2kids · 03/10/2012 20:44

There was a previous thread about this a few days ago.

Guided reading per se is not essential. Decent, planned, consistent teaching of reading - whether individually, whole class, or as guided reading IS essential.

If your daughter is making progress in all aspects of reading - decoding, comprehension, expression, fluency etc etc - then she is in all prbability receiving good reading teaching, whether it is 'called' guided reading or whole class reading or individual reading or as a session at the end of phonics or as part of literacy or whatever.

If she is not making progress, or you believe that all progress is due to what she is doing with you at home and there is no evidence of progress through in-school activity, then that is time to raiuse the concern. Not that she doesn't have a session explicitly called 'guided reading'.

[I do guided reading with most of my class, individual reading with outliers at both ends, daily reading out loud in front of the whole class for everyone, and there are lots of interventions for any children with difficulties.]