Guided Reading
Guided Reading is a time when the students meet with the teacher in small differentiated groups. The teachers select material based on the individual reading levels of the students. Teachers meet with all their students throughout the week at a specific time during the day. While teachers work with a small group of students, other students rotate through different literacy centers based on the Common Core ELA standards.
The reading material comes from the Scholastic Guided Readers, but teachers also integrate other reading articles and use close reading strategies during this time. Based on the student needs, students also focus on the different phonics skills at this time. All teachers have been receiving professional development to help strengthen the Guided Reading program at Los Arboles.
Common Core State Standards
| The standards were written using the best and highest state standards already in existence throughout the country. The standards keep the best of what we have, and replace outdated ways of learning. They are based on research around effective instruction, internationally benchmarked, aligned with college and career expectations, and designed to prepare every student for success in college and the workplace. Subject matter is no longer presented as general information or isolated facts or separated ideas. Instead, learning becomes more sequential with one "building block" of knowledge leading to another. |
To access Common Core State Standards by subject, see below:
