Strategy Instruction

Strategy Instruction

1. pronounceable word part

   • having difficulty with a word
     • seeks out familiar parts of the word
   • "is there any part of the word you can say?"

2. analogy

   • compares unknown word to known word
   • "is the word like any word you know?"
   • model words chart

3. context

   • irregular word
   • other strategies don't work
   • "what word makes sense here?"

4. sound by sound

   • doesn't see chunks or parts in words
   • need to decode word sound by sound
   • "what is the first sound?" "next sound?" "last sound?" "when put sounds together?"

5. try another sound

   • vowel or consonant spelling has more than one pronunciation
   • "what other sound can that letter make?"

6. sound correction/model word routine

   • wrong sound for an element
   • can't recall sound
   • "what is the vowel?" "model word for 'i'?" "what sound does 'i' make?"

7. monitoring/cross check

   • produces nonword or word that doesn't fit
   • "is that a real word? " does that fit the sense of the sentence?"

8. writing

   • students fails to process letters in a word
   • write word
     • say sounds of letters as write letters

9. choice

   • unable to decode a word using any strategy
     • provide choice of 2 words
     • have student select correct one
   • "is the word 'wolf' or 'dog'?" "how do you know?"

10. affirmatio

    • praise for working out a word

11. diagnostic

    • to see what strategies a student is using

12. miscue correction

    • pre-teach needed skills
    • aim is not to correct specific error
      • teach/review underlying skill
      • note where error occurred