Read with DERIC - The Supply Teacher

Read with DERIC - The Supply Teacher

Read with DERIC worksheet based on a poem called The supply Teacher, a comical poem telling children how to act when they have a supply teacher. A great lesson to be taught BY a supply teacher.

Decode
Explain
Retrieval
Inference
Choice

There is also a PowerPoint entitled ‘What is a DERIC’ which explains what the acronym stands for and how each skill will lead to becoming a better reader.

These short 20-30 minute lessons have hugely improved the ability of readers in my classes. The skills they learn through completing DERICs can be easily transfered to larger, more complex texts. It also gets children into the habit of looking for decode, explain, retreival, inference and choice style questions, which gives them a good basis of how to answer questions.