Thursday, May 9, 2019

Guess Yes or No

This week I wanted to test out a new way of comprehending an informational text since I've been learning about that in one of the graduate courses that I'm currently taking. One way that students can learn within an informational text is through a strategy called "Guess Yes or No". In this strategy, students are given a piece of paper with 15 statements on it. Before reading through the text, the students have to make a decision on whether the statement is true or false. If they think it's true, they write a "y" next to it for yes and if they think it's false they write an "n" next to it for no. After guessing, the students then partnered up and read the text to decipher whether or not their guesses were correct or not. If their guesses were not correct, students fix their guesses as they read. If the statement turned out to be false, students had to cross out one word that made it false and change it to make the statement true based on what they read. Students utilized this strategy as we read through our social studies textbook and learned about the early history of America.

























Students did an excellent job in learning how to use this strategy as they read through the social studies textbook. We will definitely be using this strategy again as we read through more informational texts.