KIM Chart Journal Club

Name: GinaBoesch

Reading: GUIDED READING The Romance and the Reality

Author: Irene C. Fountas Gay Su Pinnell
Date: 6/1/2015
Complete the following chart, based upon the five most salient Key Concepts in the reading for you.

Key Concept

Information

List the key concepts discussed in the What information will help you remember this concept?
article, one concept per for.
Providing Differentiated Instruction Differentiated instruction is needed to reach all diversed
students.

Using Leveled Books

Teachers have learned to collect short texts at the levels

they need and to use the levels as a guide for putting the
right book in the hands of students

The Romance

As teachers move to a guided reading approach, the most

frequent question they ask is: What are the rest of the
students doing?

Teachers engage in authentic, text-based assessment

Conducting Benchmark Assessment conferences that involve students in reading real books as a
Conferences
measure of how they read,
Administered during the first weeks of school, an
assessment conference with a set of carefully leveled texts
yields reliable data to guide teaching.

Memory clue
Draw a visual that will help you remember this key concept. (NOT
REQUIRED)

The information gained from systematic assessment of the

way a reader works through text provides teachers with new
understandings of the reading process

Using Running Records

to Determine Reading Levels

We can code the students reading behaviors and score the

records, noting accuracy levels. From that information, we
can make decisions about the level that is appropriate for
students to read independently

Attending to Elements of Proficient In addition to the goal of effective word solving, teachers
Reading: Decoding, Comprehension, are concerned about comprehension of texts. Many students
and Fluency
learn to decode very well and can read words with high
accuracy. Their thinking, though, remains superficial,
sometimes limited to retelling or remembering details or
facts.
The End of the Beginning
Creating a schedule, learning about effective management,
collecting and organizing leveled books, providing an
authentic assessment system and preparing teachers to use it,
and providing the basic professional development to get
guided reading underwayall are challenging tasks.