Differentiation+Kindergarten

=**Differentiation in a Guided Reading Lesson During the Picture Walk (Kindergarten)**=

__- Advanced Readers:__ - Covering up the words with a post-it so they can predict it and not just read it - Looking at the cover - Using the table of contents (concepts of print) - Using the cover and the back of the book to predict what might happen - Recognizing the same author for similarities - Comparing photographs to illustrations (for fiction and non-fiction books) - Captions/Titles (look at them for more information on those pictures) __- Proficient/Benchmark Readers:__ - Framing words that readers might have difficulty with - Clarifying vocabulary that might be confused (house for home, etc) - Having them point to a specific word on the page - Using tools the teacher has given them to figure out the word --> getting your mouth ready, finger under the word, going across the word __- Basic Readers:__ - Framing high frequency words during picture walk - Talking with them about what the book is about to see if things make sense (does this sound right? does this make sense?) - Make a list of words they might have trouble with or that you want to highlight (unfamiliar words) - Just using one book so that every group is together and looking at the same page/word - Talking about words that have letters that make more than one sound (a,e,i,o,u) and talking about if it doesn't make sense using one of the sounds, try the other sound to see if it makes sense - Use the pictures for clues!