Description Cross-checking is a strategy within Combining Phonics and Meaning. A way that cross-checking can take place is by having a teacher write a sentence that contains a covered word. In order to figure out what the word is, students cross-check phonics clues with the context clues in the sentence. To begin with, the student and teacher read the sentence together saying "blank" for the covered word. The student then comes up with a suggestion for what the word would be. The teacher then reads the sentence aloud with that word and the student determines if it looks right, sounds right, and makes sense.
Video: The video on the right represents what cross checking looks like in action. The students begin by demonstrating the actions for cross-checking, then the students demonstrate what cross-checking looks like in action. Pictures: The pictures located on the right are anchor charts to help students understand what cross-checking is. These two anchor charts can be printed and placed on the wall as the strategy of cross-checking is being taught. With the anchor charts being left up on the wall, the students will always having something to refer back to if they forget a step in cross-checking. They will be there as a reminder of cross-checking. |
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Content Area Examples1. Health: Students will use the cross-checking strategy in health while they are reading through a fill in the black health worksheet. They will be provided with a word bank and they have to read each sentence and decide which word fits the best in each blank.
2. Literacy: Cross-checking can take place in literacy by having the teacher cover a word. Then the students have to use their context clues to determine what the word is. The student comes up with a word, then has to ask themselves whether the word makes sense, looks correct, and sounds correct. 3. Science: Students will make a booklet about plants. They will have to read the booklet and fill in the missing blanks in the books and draw a picture of what the blank is. 4. Mathematics: Students will be given word problems. They have to fill in the blank of each word problem in order to solve it. They will have to determine if the blank tells them to use addition, multiplication, or division to solve the problem. |
Resources1. Jennings, J., Caldwell, J., & Lerner, J. (2014). Improving Word Knowledge: Word Recognition In Reading Problems: Assessment and Teaching Strategies (7th ed., p. 185). Boston, Massachusetts: Pearson.
2. Accuracy-Cross Checking. (2013, May 31). Retrieved November 5, 2015, from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9K0rRHzBuE |