Hi Alissa,
Perhaps it would help if you model referring back to the text and
rereading to support your thinking? Then, encourage your students to
support their ideas with information from the read aloud. Always ask
for examples from the book and reread those particular pages to your
students. Grounding your conversation in the book they just heard
might and asking them to support their conclusions with data from the
text--rereading the examples they provide-- should be enough of a
framework for them to understand what you are asking of them.
Hope this helps!
Isabel
Isabel McLean, PhD
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Charlottesville, VA
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On May 21, 2009, at 3:03 PM, Alissa Pearce wrote:
Howdy!
I'm needing help with helping my struggling readers get the hang of
determining importance. They're having a hard time grasping the
concept
of importance in relationship to the content of the text. They want to
say why things are important, in a global sense.
Alissa Pearce
Literacy Specialist
Weatherford Elementary
x23677
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