One year I offered my fourth graders the opportunity to take their nonfiction quizzes "open book." I was surprised to discover this didn't help them at all. So, I sat beside them as they took the quizzes - and discovered my strugglers had no idea how to look for the evidence they sought. They simply guessed, then felt bad if they couldn't remember the answers. That's when I began to explicitly teach them the skills they needed to locate evidence.
LOCATING and CITING EVIDENCE
Help your struggling readers find the information they're looking for in their nonfiction reading.
One year I offered my fourth graders the opportunity to take their nonfiction quizzes "open book." I was surprised to discover this didn't help them at all. So, I sat beside them as they took the quizzes - and discovered my strugglers had no idea how to look for the evidence they sought. They simply guessed, then felt bad if they couldn't remember the answers. That's when I began to explicitly teach them the skills they needed to locate evidence.
One year I offered my fourth graders the opportunity to take their nonfiction quizzes "open book." I was surprised to discover this didn't help them at all. So, I sat beside them as they took the quizzes - and discovered my strugglers had no idea how to look for the evidence they sought. They simply guessed, then felt bad if they couldn't remember the answers. That's when I began to explicitly teach them the skills they needed to locate evidence.
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