rvation Task 3: Teaching Shared/Guided Reading

Focus: Identify the structure used by your MST while implementing a

shared or guided reading lesson.

Objective: To encourage student teachers to identify and discuss the

purpose of Shared or Guided reading and how it helps promote
Concepts About Print (CAP) skills, phonemic awareness, letter
knowledge and phonics.

Procedure: Familiarize yourself with the Observation Table:

Shared/Guided Reading. Identify the specific book and reading skills
modeled by your MST and any skills that were demonstrated by the
students.

Table 3: Teaching Shared/Guided Reading (Example)

Title of book: brown bear brown bear what do you see?
Type of Reading (Shared or Guided):
What the teacher does What the children do Comments
- The teacher use the Students will answer the teacher
traditional literacy to questions.
read the books to
students.
- the teacher will show Students will listen to the
the students the story. teacher
she will ask the students
some quistion.e.g. Show
me the tital of the book. They will listen to the teacher
What can you and after finishing the story
understand from the they will do the activities.
story cover page.
Teacher will teach the
students how to hold the
story book and how to
open it.
- While she is reading the
story, she will use some
 materials and puppet to
show the students what
is happening, also to
engage them and to
make them interested.
- Teacher will use
different voice tones and
body language to
present the characters.
- At the end of the story,
teacher will ask the
students about what
happened in the story as
a peer assissment.

Reflections on Observation Task 3: Teaching Shared/Guided Reading

 1. Which concepts about print (CAP), phonological awareness, letter knowledge and
or phonics did the teacher focus on?
- The teacher was asking students about the letter “which letter is this?”. And
what’s the sound of this letter. So, she focused on letter knowledge and
phonological awareness.
a) What strategies/activities did the teacher use to help the students
understand the concept being taught?

- Teacher will ask the students about the letter and sound of the letters, also about
the story such as, title and cover page.

2. Were there any initial/medial/final sounds, punctuation, sight words or word families that
were covered during the lesson? If they were, select (a); if they were not, select (b).

a. What was the purpose of teaching these concepts. Explain its importance.
- Reading the story for them was a good opportunity to review with the students the letter
and the sounds, that’s why teaching the concepts is important.
a) Provide one (1) activity example of how initial/medial/final sounds,
punctuation, sight words or word families could have been could have been
covered during the lesson.