Think aloud the clues
Read a sentence with a tricky word and say what you're thinking: "The dog was famished, and it gobbled the food. Gobbled tells me it was really hungry." Then kids underline the clue words in their own sentences. Naming the clue is the whole skill.
Why it works: handing over the work step by step, from teacher to student, is one of the most widely used teaching frameworks (Pearson and Gallagher, 1983).
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