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Teaching first graders beginning reading foundation skills is so rewarding! What an amazing task I have to share the love of reading with my students! One very effective way to share this love and teach reading foundation is through guided reading. During guided reading, students work in small groups of 4-6 students. The teacher (myself) teaches a specific reading skill explicitly. For example, decoding, vocabulary, rhyming, comprehension skills, etc. After explicit instruction, students take a picture walk through the book making predictions and getting ready for reading. Students then begin reading the book independently. The teacher listens to each student to read independently and gives specific and individualized instruction while conferring. Once all the students have read the book, the group comes back together and discusses the book. This is comprehension practice at its finest. After all the discussion, students are sent back to their individual desk to write about the book in their response notebooks. The books are then kept in their book bags to practice for a week. This allows students to become more fluent readers. These guided reading books are of high interest and diverse. They allow students to explore their love of reading and find what kinds of books interest them. These books allow students to be introduced to a "real life" experience of a reader. With these guided reading books, I will have the ability to guide my students into a deeper understanding of reading; laying that all-important​ foundation.

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Teaching first graders beginning reading foundation skills is so rewarding! What an amazing task I have to share the love of reading with my students! One very effective way to share this love and teach reading foundation is through guided reading. During guided reading, students work in small groups of 4-6 students. The teacher (myself) teaches a specific reading skill explicitly. For example, decoding, vocabulary, rhyming, comprehension skills, etc. After explicit instruction, students take a picture walk through the book making predictions and getting ready for reading. Students then begin reading the book independently. The teacher listens to each student to read independently and gives specific and individualized instruction while conferring. Once all the students have read the book, the group comes back together and discusses the book. This is comprehension practice at its finest. After all the discussion, students are sent back to their individual desk to write about the book in their response notebooks. The books are then kept in their book bags to practice for a week. This allows students to become more fluent readers. These guided reading books are of high interest and diverse. They allow students to explore their love of reading and find what kinds of books interest them. These books allow students to be introduced to a "real life" experience of a reader. With these guided reading books, I will have the ability to guide my students into a deeper understanding of reading; laying that all-important​ foundation.

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