Coaching Strategies If a student accurately completes tasks, you can follow up with: • Great writing!
• It’s terrific to see how you support your ideas (or opinion), using the text. • It’s wonderful how you use the text as a springboard to express your own ideas. If a student appears to be stuck or challenged, you may wish to use one or more of these strategies: • (Referring to visuals or examples) Let’s see how you can use the information to help support your ideas. • How did you use the text to help you find the ________? (problem and solution, key ideas and details, sequence of events, comparisons, author’s point of view) • Let’s talk through how the text helped you form that idea. If a student comes up with an incorrect response, you may wish to follow up with: • Take another look at the text. See if you can find the words that will help you ________. (summarize or identify the key ideas and details) I’ll help if needed. • Let’s work together and look at the text to find the information we need. • Can you show me the word/words you don’t understand? Let’s try to find clues in the text that will explain the meaning of the word/words. If a student is listless, fidgety, or distracted, and depending on the student’s ability, you may wish to insert a “three-minute body break” with simple exercises that can be done in place, such as: • Walk around the chair clockwise, sit, walk counterclockwise, and sit again — counting aloud softly from 1 to 5 for each “round trip.” You may wish to add a hand switch on the back of the chair or a clap on each count, or insert a spin in place before sitting. Increase speed as desired. • Reach both arms wide, reach high, clasp hands and pull back, while bending forward from waist. • “Write the alphabet” in the air with both hands held out in front, rotating the whole hand from the wrist. • “Write the alphabet” in the air with both feet, rotating from the ankle. • Stand and twist the torso against the hips, swinging both arms to slap yourself front and back. • Shake hands loosely and vigorously (like spaghetti), arms loose and long, while knee-high stepping in place as fast as possible.
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