RPI 4: Guided Reading (and Comprehension) (Cohort 4)

 Today I had the pleasure of meeting with Kiri Kirkpatrick, who took me through a catch up of this RPI day 4 as I was not able to make it. It was a treat to have just us two working through this as I got to really have deep and meaningful conversations with Kiri on my own. I feel like each time we meet for RPI its my favourite lesson, and this class was no different! The steps below gave me a clear guideline to work with when thinking about the guided reading process. We also discussed two processes and I found that I utilise both of these approaches in our programme, focussing on the authors purpose and focussing on the teaching purpose, there are times when the can be both used. 

The section and talk about comprehension was very valuable to me as I feel this can sometimes be difficult for me, so the teaching points about comprehension gave me some good ideas and made me realise it doesn't have to be difficult just meaningful. Another gem I took away was the way we observe learners to support fluent, phrased and expressive reading - how can we help them? I found the fluency scale helpful for this and will be something I utilise in my classroom. Very grateful to Kiri and Naomi for coming through to run this session for me.