Procedure Guide: GUIDED READING PROCEDURE (GRP)

Purpose: To improve comprehension and fluency and to organize the information read.

Before

• Explain the purpose of the activity.
• Doing a Think-Aloud, model setting a reading time limit for a sample passage.
• Have student’s survey the passage to be read and determine a class reading time limit.
• Set the purpose for reading: to comprehend the main ideas and read within the determined time frame.
• Set a timer at the time limit previously determined by the class.

During

• Have students read silently and monitor their comprehension during reading by attending to the main ideas.

After

• Immediately after reading, have the students close their books and write all main ideas they can remember.
• Have students share their main ideas.
• Have students determine a new reading time (the time should be shorter).

During

• Have students reread the passage to add new information and to correct inaccurate information.

After

• Guide students in a whole-class discussion about the information they learned as a result of reading the passage.

Assessment

Quantity and quality of main idea recall.

Additions after second rereading

Discussion of main ideas