Comparing Guided Reading and Leveled Literacy Intervention: Di erent Instructional Contexts for Di erent Purposes

GUIDED READING
Guided reading is one component of a comprehensive language and literacy framework for instruction. Across many contexts, students receive instruction in reading comprehension, phonics/word study, and writing. Guided reading speci cally helps students develop pro cient systems for strategic actions for reading. General Context Instruction with emphasis on language learning

LEVELED LITERACY INTERVENTION

Leveled Literacy Intervention is a systematically designed, sequenced, short, supplementary lesson that builds on high-quality classroom instruction. It includes reading, phonics, and writing about reading. LLI o ers intensive instruction to help struggling readers develop pro cient systems of strategic actions for reading. Supplementary literacy intervention

Di erentiated classroom instruction

Purpose

All students

Serves

Readers who are having di culty and are reading below grade level Small group instruction 3 (moving to a maximum of 4 for upper grades) Students placed in groups because they have similar instructional levels

Small group instruction usually 4 to 8 Students placed in groups because they have similar instructional levels

Grouping

Ongoing across elementary school years

Duration

Temporary, short-term intervention (10 to 20 weeks, with possibility of more if needed) Leveled books that are designed for LLI and placed in a preplanned sequence Benchmark assessment to determine instructional level for each student Entry, interval assessments, and exit data recorded. Interval assessment data collected every other day (1 reading record every 6 days for each student)

Leveled books selected by the teacher for the group

Materials

Benchmark assessment to determine instructional level for each student Beginning of year, interval, and end-of-year data recorded Interval assessment varies

Assessment

15 to 20 minutes varying from 3 to 5 times a week (more for students who are having di culty)

Time

30 minutes daily (stretching to 45 minutes for upper elementary grades)

Comparing Guided Reading and Leveled Literacy Intervention: Di erent Instructional Contexts for Di erent Purposes
GUIDED READING
Guided Reading Lessons

LEVELED LITERACY INTERVENTION

Even-Numbered Lessons
Preparation (Text Analysis; Goals) Rereading and Assessment Phonics / Word Work

and Interaction

Writing About Reading (instructional text from yesterday) Reading a New Text (independent level) Classroom and Home Connection

Odd-Numbered Lessons
Preparation (Text Analysis; Goals) Rereading Text Phonics / Word Work Reading a New Text (instructional level Introduction, Reading, Discussion, Teaching Point) Word Work Classroom and Home Connection

to support e cient processing and good comprehension supported by introduction, discussion, and speci c teaching explicitly taught and prompted used as an option to extend comprehending demonstrated, taught, and reinforced during reading and taught in speci c teaching points after readingword work at the end of the lesson is an option. built through encountering new words in texts fostered by selecting engaging texts and matching books to students current reading levels

Elements

and carefully sequenced to support e cient processing and good comprehension supported by introduction, discussion, and speci c teaching explicitly taught and prompted; rereading assists uency; reading a new book at independent level also supports uency about reading used every other day to extend comprehending is preplanned, sequenced, and explicitly taught twice in every 30 minute lesson built through encountering new words in texts fostered by selecting engaging texts and matching books to students current reading levels; series books ( ction and non ction) build engagement; books not in classroom use.

Comparing Guided Reading and Leveled Literacy Intervention: Di erent Instructional Contexts for Di erent Purposes
GUIDED READING
Professional books (see Fountas and Pinnell at Heinemann.com) Fountas & Pinnell Prompting Guide 1 Lesson Guides Professional books Professional development sessions Literacy coaching in classrooms where available Built-in professional development in lessons and guides DVDs demonstrating lessons and routines Tutorial on reading records Professional Development Speci c 6-day training (at OSU and Lesley University)

LEVELED LITERACY INTERVENTION

When Readers Struggle Fountas & Pinnell Prompting Guide 1

Classroom teacher

Intervention or classroom teacher

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