Unravel reading strategy5/28/2023 Each letter in the UNRAAVEL mnemonic stands for a different strategy that teachers might teach students to use. The impact of reading abilities on test scores is the reason I created the UNRAAVEL system. They help students organize and focus on reading passages that are long and often dull. Those tools help students because they give students a starting point. Providing those students concrete, tangible tools and step-by-step processes they can work with seems to help them tremendously.Īs I have traveled the world, I have found that many of the best teachers seem to have developed systems of tools and tricks to help their students attack reading passages on standardized tests. We need to train students in those skills that will help them succeed on tests.Īt-promise students, especially, are easily tripped up by things that are nebulous. It is essential to provide all students - especially low achievers - with structured systems to help them read and interpret test passages so they can correctly answer questions about them. One of the reasons so many low-achieving and at-promise students do poorly on state assessment tests is that they lack the reading skills they need to attack those tests. See the sidebar for more information about this workshop and others. This strategy for improving student achievement on state tests is one that Larry Bell includes in the UNRAAVEL Reading Strategy Mnemonic section of his Closing the Achievement Gap Workshop - Part 1.
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