Explicit reading strategy instruction following the WWW&H rule: explain, model, and support strategy implementation with guided practice¶

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Description¶

The article describes explicit instruction as teaching where "the teacher clearly teaches students about a strategy by explaining and demonstrating how to implement a particular strategy, explaining the benefits of strategy use, and supporting students in strategy implementation". It follows the WWW&H rule (What to Do, When, Why, and How) and rests on explicit explanations, modeling, and guided practice. In this study the steps were: explaining and exemplifying strategy definitions, researcher modeling via read-aloud and think-aloud on force-motion and electricity texts, reading a photosynthesis-respiration text with a strategy checklist, and reading a phases-of-the-Moon text with an open-ended evaluation form.

Design Implications¶

Context¶

Requirements¶

• Teacher explains strategy definitions and benefits, models strategy use, and supports students during implementation

Constraints¶

• The instruction process lasted 5 weeks in this study; effectiveness evidence here is limited to preservice science teachers reading science texts

Target Learners¶

• preservice science teachers

Target Learning Goals¶

• use of cognitive and metacognitive reading strategies
• improving conceptual understanding of science texts

Related Strategies¶

• Explicit Teaching
• Strategy Instruction
• Explicit or Direct Instruction

Examples¶

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Key Sources¶

• Yurttaş-Kumlu, G. D., & Yürük, N. (2023). Investigation of cognitive and metacognitive strategies used by preservice science teachers exposed to explicit and peer tutoring reading strategies instruction. International Journal of Contemporary Educational Research, 10(1), 1-24. https://doi.org/10.33200/ijcer.1082537