Deeper reading is based on a guided reading lesson, with the objective to get students deeper into texts. This is where I do my guided close reading. I take a text we have worked with before either in guided reading or as a whole class and we look deeper at it. I choose small, significant parts of the text and we have a discussion about it. After reading the book Notice and Note, I plan on using this time to reinforce understanding of looking for signposts in this small group time as well. This is also the time I reinforce whole group language lessons as we look deeper at places in texts where language elements we have learned about are apparent.
I generally meet with this group for about 20 minutes. Since I meet with the guided reading group first, I sometimes ask this deeper reading group to read the selection or answer some questions about the text on their own first, while I'm meeting with the guided group. This is helpful for longer texts or selections I want to really dig into. This is most often the case for my highest reading groups.
How do you work in close or deeper reading with smaller groups?
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