Guided Reading Suggestions for Independent and Group Activities

Previewing

Picture Walk 

Predicting

Anticipation Guides Predicting 

Think Alouds

Connect

Predict/Anticipate

Summarize/Conclude

Question/Monitor

Image/Infer

Evaluate/Apply 

Doing the Book

Plays

Reader.s Theater

Pantomiming 

Small Group Discussions

Talking Why & How  

Sentence and Paragraph Detectives

Who Took Our Caps?

Who Did What?

What.s the Missing Word?

Who Mixed Up Our Sentences? 

Writing and Drawing Before, During, and After Reading

Connect

Predict/Anticipate

Summarize/Conclude

Question/Monitor

Image/Infer

Evaluate/Apply 

Graphic Organizers

KWL

Web

Data Chart

Venn Diagram

Time Line

Causal Chain

Circle Map

Story Map

Fishbone Map

Question/Prediction Chart

Character Map

Main Idea Chart

List Map

Story Board

Graphic Organizers

Spider Map