Target: Directions lessons

[Twanalm <Twanalm@AOL.COM>]

Greetings!
As it gets closer to the end of the year, I'm noticing that a lot of students
are really starting to get lazy when it comes to doing things on their
own--especially the simple task of following directions. I get student after
student come up and say "I don't get this..." or they ask me to explain again
what I've just gone through several times. I really want them to start trying
to figure out what to do on their own--when given an activity with directions
on it--rather than think someone has to tell them.
I have already done the directions lesson where you come up with a huge list
of silly things to do with the first direction being to read through all the
directions before beginning, and then at the end the last direction says to
ignore the rest of the directions. does anyone else have any other good
lessons on this?
I will post a hit.

Twana Weiler
Library Media Teacher
St. Mary's Academy
Englewood CO
twanalm@aol.com

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