Which instructional approach involves a teacher guiding a child through silent reading with prompts and questions, and engaging in interactive discussion about the text?

• A. Diphthongs
• B. Emergent Readers
• C. Guided Reading
• D. Justified Print

Answer: (C)

Guided Reading centers on a teacher-guided, scaffolded approach where a text is selected to match a student’s instructional level and the child reads with targeted support. The teacher guides silent reading, offering prompts and questions to check comprehension as the reading happens, and then leads an interactive discussion about the text. This combination—quiet reading with purposeful prompts and a collaborative discussion—helps the reader build strategies for understanding, such as predicting, clarifying, and interpreting meaning, while the teacher adjusts support based on how the student responds. Emergent Readers describe a developmental stage rather than a specific instructional method, Diphthongs relate to vowel sounds, and Justified Print is not a recognized instructional approach, so they don’t fit the description.