Text Selection
The following criteria may help you with your selection of text
for Guided Reading.
Emergent Readers
A book that is appropriate for the emergent level will have:
- A familiar subject
- A simple language pattern
- Many short, high-frequency words
- Many concrete words
- Illustrations that correspond exactly to the text on the
page
- Large print with distinct word spacing
- About two lines per page
- Consistent placement of print
Early Readers
A book that is appropriate for the early level will have:
- Less predictable language patterns
- Sentences that extend beyond a single line or continue on the
next page
- Some simple dialogue
- A story with a beginning, middle, and end
- Illustrations depicting more or less what the text says on
that page
Fluent Readers
A book that is appropriate for the fluent level will have:
- A subject or topic that may extend beyond students' range of
knowledge
- Fairly long and complex sentences
- Text that requires students to make inferences
- Illustrations that complement the text on the page rather than
match it
- More pages than books for early and emergent readers
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