How can I use i-read to support guided reading?
The guided/independent activities in the Teacher’s Notes offer ideas and guidance on how to use both the e-text and the shadow text for a guided reading session. Many of the demonstration and shared sessions include suggestions that could equally apply to a guided reading session: reading, analysing, searching for clues, discussion and so on. i-read can help effective guided reading in the following ways: • by actively engaging pupils with reading, through interactive features; • by providing a range of opportunities for reading, from the teacher-led whole-class sessions to application of the skills learned in the whole-class session in group and independent work; • by encouraging discussion of the focus texts in pairs or groups; • by offering different texts within a single text type to encourage a range of reading; • by encouraging children to re-read familiar texts.
