Twelve Tips for Powerful Teaching in Guided Reading Lessons: A Teacher Tip from Fountas & Pinnell

1. Notice the student’s precise reading behaviors.
2. Eliminate ineffective behaviors and help the reader do what proficient readers do.
3. Select a text on which the reader can learn how to read better- not too difficult and not too easy.
4. Teach the reader not the text.
5. Teach the student to read written language not words.
6. Teach for the student to initiate effective problem-solving actions.
7. Use clear precise language that passes the control to the reader. 
8. Only ask the student to do what you know he can do.
9. Don’t clutter the teaching with too much talk.
10. Focus on self-monitoring and self-regulating behaviors so the reader becomes independent.
11. Build on examples of successful processing.
12. Teach for fast responding so the reader can process smoothly and efficiently.

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