Guided Reading Strip
Overview
By highlighting the text students are reading, the strip can also eliminate distractions.
Example: Use This Strategy In in the Classroom
Design It into Your Product
Design It into Your Product
Learn how BeeLine Reader uses a color and focus to support fluent reading. By adding a color gradient from one line to another, learners can read with greater fluency and accuracy.
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- Explore the Self-Regulation subtopic on Digital Promise's Research Map.
Additional Resources
Additional examples, research, and professional development. These resources are possible representations of this strategy, not endorsements.
Factors Supported by this Strategy
More Multisensory Supports Strategies
Audiobooks allow students to hear fluent reading and to experience books above their reading skills.
Providing physical representations of concepts helps learners activate mental processes.
Connecting information to music and/or dance moves enhances memory by drawing on auditory processes and the cognitive benefits of physical activity.
Using earplugs or headphones can increase focus and comfort.
Incorporating multiple senses with strategies like chewing gum, using a vibrating pen, and sitting on a ball chair supports focus and Attention.
Transforming written text into audio activates different parts of the brain to support learning.
Tossing a ball, beanbag, or other small object activates physical focus in support of mental focus.
Research shows physical activity improves learner focus and creativity.
A web dictionary can serve as a resource for students to expand their Vocabulary knowledge.
