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Fix Up Strategy
Fix Up Strategy
Objective: Students will use Fix-Up strategies to monitor and repair comprehension while listening to and
reading text.
Materials: chart, markers, various texts
Procedure:
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Do your homework!
See THINK ALOUD lesson
Readers need explicit instruction to: become aware of their thinking as they read, detect obstacles
and confusions that derail understanding, and understand how strategies can help them repair
meaning when it breaks down.
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Assessment:**
Fix-Up Strategy T-Chart, anecdotal records, observation of sharing in group, etc.
*This lesson is intended to be repeated with different reading materials daily over a period of 2 weeks and
continuously reinforced throughout the school year.
**Informal assessment should be on-going once the objective is introduced. Formal assessment needs to
occur at appropriate intervals