SUPORT STRUCTURES FOR WEAKER READERS:

Mary Scott, teacher at Skyline High School in Oakland, California working with students on how to use guided reading criteria.

• Peer and small group (quick 10 min) sharing on reading and writing assignment.
  
  
• Teacher to student guided reading and writing of assignment using guided reading criteria.
  
  Strategies include:
  1) Dividing a short (vignette) story among a small group of students.
  
  2) Each student reads an assigned portion of the vignette and records brief notes about the reading.
  
  3) Each student in the group orally presents a portion of the reading, until the entire short (vignette) story has been presented to the peer group.
  
  4) Students in the group are asked a series of questions that analyze the reading, and analyze the interaction between characters and subordinate charters in the literary text (e.g. motivations and reactions), deliver oral responses to literature, demonstrate a comprehensive grasp of the significant ideas, and demonstrate awareness of author’s use of the literal figurative meanings of words, etc.
  
  5) Workshop tutoring for 1 through 4 above (conference period) by appointment.