![]() ![]() I have one more recommendation that I have not used, but heard good things about from a Reading in Math teacher training I did this past year, Teaching Struggling Readers to Tackle Math Word Problems for Grades 3-5. By the way, if you teach PreK-2nd grades, I’d also recommend this one for you! The problem solving steps are taught as well as a chapter on each of the problem solving strategies, like making a table, choosing an operation, or finding a pattern. Just recently, I created some word problem vocabulary cards, I purchased the one for 3rd through 5th grades. And I do know that lack of vocabulary and lack of figuring out unknown words leads to a breakdown in comprehension, no matter what kids are reading. I’m definitely not an expert in math, but I do know that there is reading involved with word problems. It would have helped tremendously if I had studied some word problem vocabulary among other things (like some steps to problem solving). I also wasn’t sure what the problem wanted me to do. Why? Because, as a struggling reader, I struggled to read and comprehend them. As an elementary student, I despised word problems with ever fiber of my body. Just the sound of that term may bring back bad memories.
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