Communication Tips
Monitor your speech rate.
Students with language difficulty have trouble listening to and interpreting a fast rate of speech. If you pay attention to your speech rate and lower it, particularly when communicating a complex concept or theme, it will help your students to understand your message.
Shorten your message.
A shorter message is easier to understand than a longer message. If you use long sentences, packed with information, it's a fair bet that some of your students won't understand all of the information. An example of a long sentence is "Get out your red science book and write your name in the top right hand corner, and then write the title of your science project in the box marked heading."
Clearly there is a large amount of information to process in the above sentence. For this type of sentence it may be best to shorten it to bite sized chunks, such as "Get out your red science books. (Pause) Write your name in the top right hand corner. The top right hand corner. (Pause) Ok, when you've done that I want you to also write the title of your science project in the box that is marked heading."
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