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Reading Skills
Description of Student Behavior
Here’s what classroom teachers can do for universal instruction...
Most Effective SRBI
MULTI-SKILLED INTERVENTIONS (must be done by individual trained in intervention)
Multi Student Needs
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Student struggles in multiple skill areas.
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Ensure student understands learning intentions at both the beginning and end of the lesson.
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Model and frequently check for understanding during a lesson.
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Provide guided instruction with scaffolds and feedback.
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Student applies new reading knowledge to parallel situations.
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LLI
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Reading Recovery
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Literacy Footprints
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Reciprocal Teaching
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Main Idea Maps
BASIC READING SKILLS: DECODING
Context Clues
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Difficulty using context clues.
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Before reading discuss pictures and unfamiliar concepts.
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During reading prompt students to use the pictures to help with meaning.
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After reading discuss the story.
Cross-Checking
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Difficulty with or inconsistent use of cross-checking during reading.
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Prompt students to use the picture clues and the first letter of the word to figure out the unknown word.
Letter Recognition
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Difficulty recognizing letters
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Create name puzzles.
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Make names with magnetic letters.
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Rainbow-write.
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Match the letters in the bag.
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Match letters to an ABC chart.
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Match upper and lowercase letters.
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Sort letters by shape and color.
Letter Sounds/Phonemic Awareness
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Difficulty recognizing sounds in words
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Difficulty segmenting words into sounds
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Difficulty putting sounds together to create words
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Complete picture sorts.
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Make words with magnetic letters.
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Complete sound boxes.
Sight Words
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Lack of sight word knowledge
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See “What’s Missing” in Guided Reading (p.90)
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Mix & Fix
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Table Writing
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Whiteboards
Rhyming
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Difficulty with rhyme
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Match pictures.
Word Patterns
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Complete word study.
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Making Words [within a guided group]
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