Road+Blocks

(Gaskins, 2003)
 * Strategies For Tackling Road Blocks**

Road Block 1- Building active involvement To overcome inactive involvement, teachers need to teach children what they have just learned.

Road Block 2- Holding attention The attention span of a young child is quite short so it is important for the teacher to get children to hold their attention to the task at hand such as reading a text. If the child gets distracted, the teacher would remind them to focus on the activity.

Road Block 3- Being persistent When a text is difficult and perhaps at a more challenging level that what the child is normally at, they are likely to get frustrated. The teacher would need to provide strategies to help them persist with their reading. Also the teacher would use a lot of encouragement to boost a child's confidence.

Road Block 4- Taking time to reflect When reading, a lot of children will read quickly and would be unable to comprehend any of the text that they have just read. The teacher would need to get the children to slow down their reading and reflect of on what text says.

Road Block 5- Being flexible Children need to take feedback constructively and if they have performed an error, they need to learn to not react negatively.



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