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What is Explicit Instruction?. Demonstration, modeling, explanation.Guided practice with feedback.Independent practice. . Explicit Instruction. I DO ITThe teacher models and explains, Watch me do it first."WE DO ITThe teacher and students do it together, with the teacher providing feedback,
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1. EXPLICIT INSTRUCTION Michael L. Kamil
Stanford University
2. What is Explicit Instruction? Demonstration, modeling, explanation.
Guided practice with feedback.
Independent practice.
3. Explicit Instruction
I DO ITThe teacher models and explains, Watch me do it first.
WE DO ITThe teacher and students do it together, with the teacher providing feedback, Lets do it together and I will help you.
YOU DO ITStudents do it on your own. Now you do it on your own.
4. How To Do It This is NOT a linear process.
Day 1-- T, T & Ss.
Day 2-- T & Ss, T, 4 Ss.
Day 3-- T & Ss, 4 Ss.
Day 4-- 2 Ss, T & Ss, T.
Day 5-- 4 Ss, 2 Ss, 2 Ss.
5. Here is how to pair students:
Rank the whole class.
Divide the class in half.
Pair highest reader from top half to highest reader from bottom half.
Continue down in that order.
6. How To Do It Here are some rules of thumb:
1) Begin with modeling or explaining.
2) Model and think-aloud.
3) Move to guided practice with students.
4) Move from guided practice to students working together.
5) Have students work together in 4s, in pairs.
7. Summarizing 1) Summarizing is one of, if not, the most cognitively difficult strategies to learn how to do.
2) It is very rare that textbooks teach students or help teachers teach students HOW TO summarize.
8. Getting the Gist 1. Name the who or what.
2. Tell the most important information about the who or what.
3. Say it in 10 words or less.
* Vaughn, et al. Collaborative Strategic Reading (CSR)