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6 thoughts on “Dictée Instructions”
Yes. This is what I do. However, I don’t have any pre-written sentences. I don’t use the overhead. In fact, I hardly ever use the overhead anymore. I confess, I’m a bit anti-technology these days. So, instead, after I repeat the sentence the third time, I just write it out on the whiteboard. One problem with doing it this way is that some students will wait until they see the correct version on the whiteboard and copy that twice instead of trying to write their version first.
Mine are totally on the fly, using whatever we just talked about as the material for the dictation.
Also, I encourage students to use a different color pen to make corrections. I have a box of crayons I’ll pass around.
This is pretty much what I do as well, because my 4th / 5th grade students can’t wait until all three sentences are done before they see my version. To avoid them just waiting to copy twice I walk around and put stars or check marks on their papers as they are writing to encourage them to try and keep up.
I’ve added another step of asking them to write what they think the sentence means in English on a third line and comparing that with a neighbor. They seem to enjoy that part.
I really like the idea of the multicolor pens and circling differences, I’m going to add that in.
agreed with on the fly
I’ll add that different colored pen idea into the text. Thanks.
I did this today with my 5th graders and it was great! They were so happy when they found that they had gotten it right. 🙂
For me @ elementary, I only do one sentence at a time and then write the corrected version. Also we do dictee on lined dry-erase lap boards. This seems to really minimize any anxiety, competition or other negativity. Sometimes we do a guided drawing first (today we drew a cutie hotdog – a character from a story) and wrote sentences from the story above/ below the drawing.
Everyone loves that feeling of the marker skating across the shiny surface…