Determined. Confident. Despondent. Collaborative. Majestic. These are Tier Two words – words students can use across the day whether they are discussing a character in a novel or what happened on the playground or how they are feeling about solving a math problem (Beck & McKeown, 2013). Teaching words like these in a simple, consistent …Read more
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Context Clues in Info Texts (Part 2) – Conferring with Students
Posted on February 4, 2025
In the third entry of this series, I describe three reading conferences I had with students focused on making sense of context clues and share some tips.
Determined. Confident. Despondent. Collaborative. Majestic. These are Tier Two words – words students can use across the day whether they are discussing a character in a novel or what happened on the playground or how they are feeling about solving a math problem (Beck & McKeown, 2013). Teaching words like these in a simple, consistent …Read more