Guided Reading Anecdotal Notes Student: _________________

Dates: Book(s): Level(s):

Comprehension: Early Reading Behaviors: Self-Monitoring Solving Words:

❑ Retell Does the reader: Does the reader: Does the reader:
❑ Connecting ❑ Move left to right across a line ❑ Hesitate at an unknown word? ❑ Recognize high-frequency words
of print? ❑ Stop at an unknown word? quickly?
❑ Visualizing
❑ Stop at an unknown word and ❑ Recognize words quickly and
❑ What’s important ❑ Return to the left for a new
appeal for help? easily?
❑ Questioning line?
❑ Stop after an error? ❑ Use a variety of flexible ways to
❑ Predicting ❑ Match voice to print while ❑ Notice mismatches? take words apart?
❑ Inferring reading a line or more of print? ❑ Notice when an attempt does not ❑ Use the meaning of the sentences
❑ Synthesizing ❑ Recognize a few easy high- look right? to solve words?
frequency words? ❑ Notice when an attempt does not ❑ Use the structure of the sentence
to solve words?
Maintaining Fluency Self-Correcting
sound right?
❑ Notice when an attempt does not ❑ Use some of the visual information
Does the reader: Does the reader: make sense? to solve words?
❑ Read without pointing? ❑ Reread and try again until ❑ Reread to confirm reading? ❑ Use known word parts to solve
❑ Read word groups (phrases)? accurate? ❑ Use knowledge of some high- words?
❑ Put words together? ❑ Stop after an error and make frequency words to check on ❑ Use sound analysis (sounding
another attempt? reading? out)?
❑ Read smoothly?
❑ Stop after an error and make ❑ Check one source of information ❑ Make attempts that are visually
❑ Read the punctuation?
multiple attempts until accurate? with another? similar?
❑ Make the voice go down at
❑ Reread to self-correct? ❑ Check an attempt that makes ❑ Use the sound of the first letter to
periods?
❑ Work actively to solve sense with language? solve words?
❑ Make the voice go up at question
mismatches? ❑ Check an attempt that makes ❑ Work actively to solve words?
marks?
❑ Self-correct errors sense with the letters (visual ❑ Use known words or parts to solve
❑ Pause briefly at commas, dashes,
information)? unknown words?
and hyphens?
❑ Use language structure to check ❑ Use prefixes and suffixes to take
❑ Read dialogue with intonation or
on reading? words apart?
expression?
❑ Request help after making ❑ Use inflectional endings to take
❑ Stress the appropriate words to
several attempts? words apart?
convey accurate meaning?
❑ Use sentence context to derive the
❑ Read at a good rate—not too fast
meaning of words?
and not too slow?
❑ Use base words and root words to
derive the meaning of words?

Using Information/Cues Notes:

Meaning
❑ Make meaningful attempts at unknown words?
❑ Use the meaning of the story or text to predict unknown
words?
❑ Reread to gather more information to solve a word?
❑ Reread and use the meaning of the sentence?
❑ Reread to search for more details—information,
characters, plot?
❑ Reread to gather information to clarify confusions?
❑ Use headings and titles to think about the meaning of a
section of text?
❑ Use information in the pictures to help in understanding
a text?
❑ Use knowledge of the genre (and its characteristics) to
help in understanding a text?
❑ Use knowledge of the genre (and its characteristics) to
help in finding information?
❑ Use readers’ tools to help in finding information
(glossary, index)?
Guided Reading
Visual Information
❑ Use the visual information to solve words?
❑ Use some, most, or all of the visual information to solve
words?
❑ Use sound analysis to solve a word?
❑ Use knowledge of a high-frequency word to problem
solve?
❑ Search for more visual information within a word to solve
it?
❑ Use syllables to solve words?
❑ Recognize words quickly and easily?
❑ Reread and use the sound of the first letter to solve a
word?
❑ Problem solve unknown words quickly and efficiently?
❑ Use multiple sources of information together in attempts
at words?
❑ Use all sources of information flexibly to solve words?
❑ Use all sources of information in an orchestrated way
Structure
❑ Use knowledge of oral language to solve unknown
words?
❑ Reread to see if a word “sounds right” in a sentence?
❑ Reread to correct using language structure?
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