And, that's our goal ladies and gentlemen. This is a bad guess semantically and syntactically. It is also not a good grapho-phonics guess either. We want to see kids paying attention to what they read. The word is ran .
Children use many cueing strategies .
Children's miscues inform our instruction . Children must HEAR the language you want them to use and they must have a reason to USE it. Children's linguistic miscues tell us about the language children hear and use in their environment. Opportunities for this use must be made available to children in our classrooms, as well. Although the main focus in on developing competence in the use of standard English, it is important for students to learn to respect the audience for which messages to be communicated are intended.