If a mistake occurs, pause; wait to give the student a chance to solve the problem. Allow a few moments for thinking time before expecting an answer.
Prompt
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encourage a response:
if the student stops at an unknown word and cannot continue, ask him or her to read on to the end of the sentence or to reread from the beginning of the sentence and to try again. A brief discussion of the content or storyline may help the student to make a sensible guess at an unknown word.
if the student makes a substitution that does not make sense, prompt with clues about the meaning of the content or story, e.g. ask a question.
if the student makes a substitution that does not look right, prompt with clues about the way the word looks, e.g. ask about one part of the word that looks wrong.
if the student makes a substitution that does not sound grammatically correct, prompt by drawing attention to the way it sounds.
if the word is not correct after two prompts say, ‘the word is.’’response.
H3N10079Praise
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students’ literacy development:
praise when the student reads a sentence correctly: ‘I like the way you’’
praise when the student corrects himself or herself after a mistake: ‘I liked the way you worked that out’.
praise when the student gets a word correct after your prompt: ‘you worked that out well’.
praise your students with comments that provide feedback: ‘that’s great, well done’.development.