| To help your child improve his or her reading skills, | | | | patterns. A young child's guided reading curriculum |
| teachers use what is known as reading levels to | | | | has the primary goal of providing the building |
| help create guided reading curriculums. Each | | | | blocks of language. |
| reading level has a set of books that are | | | | First Grade |
| specifically geared towards improving different | | | | As first graders begin to progress, the guided |
| reading skills and comprehension, depending in part | | | | reading curriculum will begin to introduce slightly |
| on the child's age. If you would like to use | | | | more advanced skills. It often begins with learning |
| summer vacation to help your child get a head | | | | the difference between nouns and verbs, and |
| start, his or her teacher should be able to provide | | | | builds upon the skills learned in kindergarten. These |
| you with the list ahead of time. This can help you | | | | stories may also be more advanced, containing |
| create your own guided reading curriculum. | | | | longer sentences and plots where the characters |
| The guided reading curriculums become slightly | | | | interact more frequently. |
| more advanced with each passing school year. | | | | Second Grade |
| The hope is that when the child graduates from | | | | The more advanced second grade guided reading |
| the sixth grade, they will have acquired a large | | | | curriculum finds children more able to answer |
| set of reading comprehension skills. These skills will | | | | questions about the stories they have read. Their |
| help them succeed in middle school, high school, | | | | reading comprehension has advanced, as well as |
| and beyond. Here are a few examples of what a | | | | their retention of the material. Many children this |
| good guided reading curriculum should strive to | | | | age even begin to read short chapter books. |
| teach. | | | | While a guided reading curriculum is generally |
| Kindergarten | | | | created for a specific age group, it is important to |
| As the child begins learning to read and enters | | | | assess where a particular student is and find |
| school for the first time, they begin with a guided | | | | appropriate material for their level. Students with |
| reading curriculum meant to impart the basics of | | | | a lower comprehension should be approached with |
| reading. The books use sentences that may be | | | | material to help meet their needs, without making |
| only two or three words, and each of these | | | | them feel inadequate. This is also important for |
| words tends to be four or fewer letters. Such | | | | students with learning disabilities. It may be helpful |
| examples as "See Spot Run" may be memories | | | | to use a guided reading curriculum that has |
| from your childhood, and are still popular favorites | | | | advanced stories told in a simple, building block |
| in a kindergarten guided reading curriculum. | | | | format in cases like these. |
| The goal of these books is to teach children the | | | | If you understand your child's reading level and |
| sounds that the different letters make, and to | | | | guided reading curriculum, you can help them |
| help them understand how these sounds change | | | | meet their educational goals and spend quality |
| as the letters are strung together. Often they | | | | time with them. |
| employ rhyming words to help reinforce the | | | | |