Guided Reading
Guided reading can be applied to mathematics. This strategy is best done in small groups. The purpose is to help students realize that they should engage with the text and make sure the text makes sense to them. The teacher helps the students connect what they are reading to prior knowledge. The teacher will present a text or a graphic to the students. TH teacher asks process questions that the students should ask themselves in the future. The students will have a piece of paper with two columns on it in front of them. One column will be labeled "What I Predict" and the other column will be "What I Know." The students will then read the section and fill out their columns. Then the teacher should ask questions like,
- What would you be doing in that situation?
- Does this make sense?
- What does the picture/graph/chart tell you?
- How does the title connect to what we're reading?
- Why are these words in capital letters?
- Why is there extra white space here?
- What does that word mean in this context?
Literacy Strategies for Improving Mathematics Instruction by Joan M. Kenney, Euthecia Hancewicz, Loretta Heuer, Diana Metsisto and Cynthia L. Tuttle