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4. STUDENT READS THE TEXT ALOUD TO THE WORD CLEARER.
The student reads the text aloud to the Word Clearer. While the student reads, the Word Clearer follows his own copy of the same text, watches the student and listens to him.
The Word Clearer must be very alert and see or hear any nonoptimum reactions of the student while he is reading.
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5. NONOPTIMUM REACTION EQUALS MISUNDERSTOOD WORD.
A nonoptimum reaction by the student to what he is reading is the clue to the Word Clearer that the student has encountered a misunderstood word. The Word Clearer and student must now locate the exact misunderstood word or symbol. It will be found before or sometimes at the point the nonoptimum reaction occurred.
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6. FIND THE MISUNDERSTOOD.
If it is not obvious to the student that he has reacted and he just continues reading, the Word Clearer says, “That’s it. Is there some word or symbol there that you didn’t understand?” It is the duty of the Word Clearer to steer the student to the misunderstood. It is either at the point of the nonoptimum reaction or before it. The point is that the student must be steered onto it. And it then is looked up.
The student may be able to spot his misunderstood word right away and tell the Word Clearer what it is. Or he may have difficulty finding it and the Word Clearer will have to help him find it.
The Word Clearer helps the student by getting him to look earlier and earlier in the text from the point where he reacted until the misunderstood word is found. The Word Clearer can also spot-check the student. Spot-checking means choosing words from the text the student has already read and checking with him to see if he knows the definitions of those words.
If the student is uncertain about any word or gives a wrong definition, then that word is taken up and cleared in the dictionary.
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