Guided reading is a small-group instructional context in which a teacher supports each readers development of systems of strategic actions for processing new texts at increasingly challenging levels of difficulty. During guided reading, students in a small-group setting individually read a text that the teacher has selected at their instructional reading level. The teacher provides teaching across the lesson to support students in building the in-the-head networks of strategic actions for processing increasingly challenging texts. Guided reading is usually a daily activity in English and Welsh primary school classrooms and involves every child in a class over the course of a week. In the United States, guided reading can take place at both the primary and intermediate levels. The benefits of guided reading include supporting readers in expanding their processing competencies, building confidence as readers, and developing comprehension of text and maximizing thinking.