Guided Reading and Writing are instructional practices in which teachers can re-teach or reinforce a specific skill or strategy with a group of students who have similar needs.

Guided Reading includes:

• allowing students to practice reading silently before discussing or reading aloud to the group
• providing an environment where students can work towards independence with support and feedback
• choosing texts that specifically meet the needs of the learner
• creating flexible groups, as needed.

Guided Writing includes:

• providing an environment where students can work towards independence with support and feedback
• choosing objectives that specifically meets the needs of the learner
• using other texts as models (e.g., professionally authored, teacher created orstudent created text)
• creating flexible groups, as needed.