Zip Strip Self-Checking Learning Pockets
** One Simple Teaching Tool **
Does it All:
- Remediate slow readers and spellers
- Accelerate average and fluent readers and spellers
- Includes a quick assessment strategy
- Students work at their own pace; independently or in pairs
- Self-checking picture provides comprehension component
- Builds association between words in the same phonics/spelling pattern
- These learning modalities make it successful:
- Small Motor / Tactile:
- Manipulating the strip in the pocket engages the student to participate
- Challenges student and study buddy
- Visual:
- The strip creates a visual link between the work and the picture, thereby strengthening comprehension
- The strip creates a visual association between words in the same phonetic group
- Auditory / Oral Repetition:
- Student hears himself say the word and spell the word
- Student hears others say the word and spell the word
- Encourages long term rentention / cumulative learning
- Connects word, picture and the spelling of the word
- Creates a pattern with other words in the same or similar phonetic group
- Creates the emotional response of accomplishment when the strip is completed correctly
