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Word
Attack Strategies
Students
who are learning to read need strategies besides decoding to help them read
unknown words. Decoding is the most common strategy that students use but
many words in the English language do not lend themselves to decoding.
Therefore, children need other strategies for reading words.
1.
Look
at the pictures.
2.
Try
to sound out the word.
3.
Look
at the beginning letters.
4.
Look
at the ending letters.
5.
Look
for a smaller word inside the word.
6.
Skip
the word and read to the end of the sentence.
7.
Try
to guess! Does your word make sense? Does your guess look like the word?
8.
Use
the words around it.
9.
Go
back and re-read.
10.
Put
another word in it's place.
11.
Look
in the dictionary.
12.
Ask
a friend or an adult.
Comprehension
Fix-up Strategies
Good
readers use strategies to make sense of text. When comprehension breaks down,
readers have a set of strategies to repair comprehension. Below are a list of
strategies readers can use to comprehend text.
Monitoring
for Comprehension (Self-monitoring):
Students
need to be aware of when their comprehension breaks down. Teachers need to
explicitly teach students to be aware of their comprehension as they read.
Once they realize they have lost meaning, they can then begin to apply the
following strategies below:
1.
Use
picture and/or context clues
2.
Ask
questions
3.
Go
back & reread
4.
Summarize
& Retell
5.
Make
predictions
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