Reteach worksheets are designed to give the students who are reading it a tutorial on how to do the skill. As the student works through the problems and answers questions, he/she is led to the discovery of how to do the work and master the concept.
Reteach worksheets are the best! And they have many uses, but my favorite is the last one in this article.
Whole Group Instruction
When teaching the entire class how to do a skill, reteach worksheets have immense value. They are set up like a textbook, detailing the steps and highlighting the key terms and processes.
Reteach worksheets are great for whole group instruction because they can guide your teaching and give your students opportunities to reflect on the steps as you complete them together. They also are great for student note taking.
Also, because they have practice problems with feedback, students who are working faster than the class are free to move ahead.
Finally, reteach worksheets have independent work at the end, which allows you to quickly assess whether the students have mastered the work in class and are ready to move on, or if they’re still not grasping it and need more practice with feedback.
Absent Work / Makeup Work
When students are out for an extended period of time, it’s difficult to give them the work that they missed. Especially in math.
If a student missed the entire section and you give them the worksheets that they missed, they won’t know how to do the work. (You and I know that in this day and age, they should be able to look up how to do the work on the internet and find tons of articles and videos to help them, but they won’t).
This is why a reteach worksheet is so great. It gives the student a tutorial on how to do the work. So if they missed the entire section on adding fractions, give the student an adding fractions reteach worksheet will help them learn how to do the skill so that they can complete the rest of their work.
Response to Intervention
Do you have a student who can’t do the grade level work because they have failed to master a prerequisite skill? For example, you’re working on slope but you have a student who doesn’t know how to graph points on a coordinate plane? Or you’re working on one-step equations, but you have students who still can’t add integers.
An effective way to remediate these students is to give them a reteach worksheet on that skill. They can remediate that skill by using the Reteach worksheet without slowing down the rest of the class.
This allows you to differentiate your instruction to reach both the students who are on level as well as the students who need remediation.
Centers
If you’re having your students work in centers, a reteach worksheet is a great resource.
I have long advocated that independent student work should have immediate feedback, otherwise the student might do practice problems incorrectly, repeatedly, which actually does more harm then good. Most teachers have independent work in their centers, and often that independent work is in the form of a worksheet.
This is why I provide answer sheets, so that students can check their work as they complete it. Or, if I have access to technology in the classroom, I will put the students on a program that provides immediate feedback on each practice problem (like IXL or Khan Academy).
Reteach worksheets are a great resource for centers. Not only does it have practice problems with immediate feedback, but the worksheet also provides a tutorial – so it is providing students with extra teaching on the skill which is a great center activity. This is a great alternative to the traditional worksheet.
And, if the students don’t finish in class, it’s easy to take home and have the students finish it there. Not all students have access to the internet, or technology at home, but they can work on the worksheet.
Learning Stations
My favorite way to use reteach worksheets is inside learning stations. RethinkMathTeacher.com has tons of resources on Learning Stations, but the simplified explanation of how it is different from a learning station is that it is skills based.
Learning Stations allow you to have your students working on different skills at the same time. This allows you to remediate or accelerate every student in the room. To do this, you need to provide students with tutorials for each skill that you have a learning station for.
My favorite way to provide tutorials for my learning stations is to have students watch videos on laptops (using headphones). However, another great way to provide a tutorial, especially if you don’t have technology in the classroom – but even if you do – is to use reteach worksheets. This provides student with instruction to complete the skill as well as practice with immediate feedback.
For more information on how learning stations, click here.
Check out This Wide Selection of Reteach Worksheets
I have a large selection of reteach worksheets in my Teachers Pay Teachers store. Click here to preview them. Because there are so many, I recommend you use the search bar inside my store to find the skill you are looking for. You can type in the skill name or common core standard.
