Question: How can the
teacher tell that students are stressed while reading?
Answer/Quote:
Text is Too Difficult
> Students are off task, nervous, or
engaged in inappropriate behaviors.
> Students read haltingly. Their
reading may include excessive repetitions or self-corrections or require
extensive teacher support.
> The lesson takes more than 15-20
minutes because the teacher has to instruct extensively.
Comment: Solution? The authors suggest shifting the
level of the text that is too difficult to a text that is at the students’ reading
level. I suggest the directed reading approach: build background information on
the topic, pre-teach unfamiliar vocabulary, survey the text by reading the
title and discussing it, the first paragraph, the first sentence of each
intermediate paragraph and the last paragraph and provide students with a
purpose for reading (possibly a question to answer). RayS.
Title: “Toolbox:
Handy Helpers for Guided Reading.” J Burkins and M Croft, Preventing Misguided Reading. Reading
Teacher (October 2011), 147-149.
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