Page 15 - Educators Guide Book

Task Approach Techniques:

• Have your student refer back to the text to find a response.

• Have the child highlight clues that lead to an inference.

• Have the child pay attention to punctuation when reading.

• Have your student utilize context clues to understand unfamiliar words, draw

• inferences, and understand the overall meaning of the passage.
• Teach children to ask questions when they don’t understand what they are reading.

• Teach students to differentiate between important and unimportant details.

Questions to ask yourself when planning a literacy lesson:

• What skill does this story lend itself to?

• How am I going to introduce and teach the actual skill?
• What information does the student need to understand the story and what background
information is worth teaching?

• How will I introduce the story and engage the child?

• What task approach skills will I build in?

• What active role will the student play in this lesson?

• How will I assess if the child has understood and applied the information taught?

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