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Lauren Viers
Spelling in Parts (SIP) Strategy
WHAT IS IT? Spelling in Parts (SIP) is a strategy that students can use to encode (spell) and decode (sound out) polysyllabic words. The SIP strategy is a variation of the Look, Say, Cover, and Write (LSCW) strategy created by Ernest Horn (as cited in Powell & Aram, 2008, p. 568). The SIP strategy encourages…
Question-Answer Relationships (QARs)
WHAT IS IT? The Question-Answer Relationships strategy is an instructional framework developed by Raphael (1982,1986) used to teach striving readers and writers the different types of questions and how to answer them. Raphael suggested that questions could be categorized based on where the answer could be found: in the book or in my head. In…
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