Equipping Students with Strategies for Back Up and Reread
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We are always amazed when we model and teach strategies to kids and one of our students remarks, "I didn't know you were supposed to do that!"
Because we are proficient readers, backing up to reread when we don't know a word on the first try is such a natural response that we use it without even thinking about it. However, our most struggling readers often don't have this strategy in their reading repertoire.
By modeling the Back up and Reread strategy, pointing out exactly what goes on inside the head of a proficient reader, we begin to take the mystery out of what to do when they come to a word they don't know and equip them to do it on their own.
Gail models the simple but powerful Back Up and Reread strategy with a group of young learners.
