Which term refers to guiding students in reading and writing with the teacher providing limited, but ongoing support?

• A. Guided Writing/Reading
• B. Read Aloud
• C. Sustained Writing
• D. Audiobooks

Answer: (A)

Guided reading/writing is about scaffolding students as they practice reading and writing, with the teacher providing targeted prompts, modeling, and feedback in an ongoing but limited way. This approach supports specific skills—like decoding, comprehension, sentence structure, and drafting—while gradually releasing responsibility to the student as independence grows. It embodies the idea of giving help that is purposeful and time-limited, then fading it as performance improves. Read Aloud focuses on listening to text rather than practicing reading and writing with ongoing supports; Sustained Writing involves extended writing tasks with guidance but not the integrated, small-group, scaffolded practice across reading and writing; Audiobooks are listening experiences. So, the best fit for guiding students in reading and writing with ongoing but limited support is guided reading/writing.