Topic: Daily Lit Bit

Responsive teaching meets each student where they are and brings them forward with intention and precision.

A carefully selected text is a critical element in successful teaching of guided reading.

Students need to experience a variety of books at varied levels for a variety of purposes in a rich literacy system.

Lessons are carefully planned and systematic; but there is always room for moment-to-moment adjustment given student response.

It is the observation and analysis of the students’ reading behaviors that informs your next teaching moves.

Responsive teaching meets students where they are and moves them forward with intention and precision.

The purpose of guided reading is to support the reader’s building of an effective processing system, enabling them to expand their reading power over time.

Responsive teaching brings the teaching to the child. It's not about fitting the children into a preconceived slot or sequence, but finding out what that student is interested in, what motivates them, what their hopes and desires are.

One goal of our teaching is to help children become active examiners and analyzers of print.

When students encounter responsive teaching in all literacy contexts, they get a powerful message: Reading is thinking.

Each element in a guided reading lesson is directed at helping students build their independent processing power.

There is no script for you to follow in guided reading. The lesson is highly structured and organized to support learning; however, your teaching interactions with students depend on their responses and the goals you see as important for them.

We are drawn to texts that help us remember and better understand our own experiences and emotions, creating links between our own lives and those of other human beings who may be far distant in terms of culture, geography, or time.

Previous reading experiences have everything to do with processing a text successfully. The more you have read, the more information you carry with you the next time you read.

Reading fluency is a complicated business: every kind of strategy needed to achieve comprehension—rapid word solving, anticipating, monitoring, accessing and using information—works together to propel the reader through the text.

All texts demand that the reader put together and hold in memory what has already been read while at the same time continue to process new information.

“Happy World Read Aloud Day!” Reading aloud and discussing texts with children helps them become interested in print, notice characteristics of genres, and expand their vocabulary and content knowledge; it gives them something of substance to think about and talk about.

Children are attracted to books that reflect their own lives, but as readers become more advanced, they need to learn about other cultures and see different perspectives