Topic: Teach Reading There are four components that help us as a teacher to structure reading instruction in a classroom. • Modelled Reading • Shared Reading • Guided Reading • Independent Reading These four components are woven into our weekly instruction to help our students work on different skills through their reading journey. The purpose behind the gradual release of responsibility is to ensure that students understand what they need to do. When we slowly show them how to do things and work on making the doing of the work more under their control then they are better prepared to show us the skills they have learned over time to master the concepts we are trying to teach them. With this framework in reading it allows us as teachers to model much of the reading process explicitly to our students. Sharing with them the thinking skills and strategies of good readers. Especially when some will just figure it out and others are left with the mystery of what is actually happening. W