Instructional+Decision+Making

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· Visualizing · Inferring · Determining Importance · Making and Refining Predictions · Making Connections · Synthesizing · Summarizing · Retelling · Questioning
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 * **Comprehension** || The most beneficial instructional approach that we currently utilize to increase student achievement in both literal and inferential comprehension is explicit instruction. Teachers model a single or related set of comprehension processes/skills through a series of think alouds with a keen focus on meaningful and extensive guided and independent practice. When determining the instructional focus for supplemental or intensive support, the providers must determine what comprehension process/skill or set of related processes/skills to model and may include

It is critical to student success that all service providers understand the goal for the support and use a common approach when instructing and assessing.

Other interventions may include a focus on  · Question-Answer Relationships · Vocabulary Strategies · Graphic Organizers · Semantic Mapping · Nonfiction Read Alouds · Text Structures

All interventions listed above could potentially be accomplished through an explicit instruction/gradual release of responsibility model. || Picture cues Initial, middle, final consonants(Get your mouth ready) Skip it and go on Cross Checking Look for known parts · Sight word instruction (Jan Richardson) · Word sorts - Sound boxes · Making words · Chunking/syllabication - Analogies || · Choral Reading · Repeated Reading · Partner Reading · Taped Reading · Increased Independent Reading ||
 * **Word Accuracy** || · Explicit instruction/gradual release in decoding strategies
 * **Fluency** || · Echo Reading