# data[].attributes.body
Language Experience Approach is a reading and writing procedure that is based on children's language and experiences (Ashton-Warner, 1986). The child will tell the teacher things about their life experiences and the teacher will write them.

Advantages:

-Since the teacher is writing what the child is saying, the child is going to be closer to being able to read it.

Disadvantages:

-Even though the child is saying what the teacher is writing, the child could still struggle with reading it because the child could have not really paid attention to what they were telling the teacher.

Example:

http://www.cal.org/caela/esl_resources/digests/LEA.html

Sources:

http://www.cal.org/caela/esl_resources/digests/LEA.html

(Gail E. Tompkins, Literacy Early Grades)

# data[].attributes.body
Grand Conversations are discussions about stories in which children explore the big ideas, deepen their comprehension, and reflect on their feelings. (Peterson & Eeds, 2007).

This has two parts:

First part is open ended.

Second part is when teachers focus their students on one or two topics that they didn't talk about in the first part.

Advantages:

-When in a whole class activity, children like the community they have built on one thing.

-When in a small group, children have more opportunities to speak with each other.

Disadvantages:

-Children might be overwhelmed by this activity.

Examples:

http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00094056.2015.1001654?journalCode=uced20

Sources:

http://www.tc.columbia.edu/ncrest/hatch/nd6505/grandconversations.htm

http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00094056.2015.1001654?journalCode=uced20

(Gail E. Tompkins, Literacy Early Grades)

# data[].attributes.body
Choral Reading is used for children to orally share poems and other brief texts.

Advantages:

-This reading activity provides readers, struggling or not, with valuable oral reading practices.

-This activity teaches the students to read more expressively and increases their reading fluency.

Disadvantages:

-Students could be nervous about reading out loud... some students can shut down because of it.

Examples:

http://www.readingrockets.org/strategies/choral_reading

Sources:

http://www.readingrockets.org/strategies/choral_reading

(Gail E. Tompkins, Literacy Early Grades)

# data[].attributes.body
Book Talks are brief teasers that teachers give to introduce books and interest children in reading them. The book is summarized without giving away the ending.

Advantages:

-Introduced students to books in the classroom.

-This will interest students into reading.

Disadvantages:

The teacher could make up a summary that does not quite add up to the book or could discourage the student from reading the book.

Examples:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYL-Do_6clo

Sources:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYL-Do_6clo

(Gail E. Tompkins, Literacy Early Grades)

# data[].attributes.body
Collaborative Books: Children work together in small groups to make collaborative books. Each student is to contribute to one page of the book or work with a classmate to write a page or a section of the book.

Advantages:

-Children share the work, so the activity gets done much faster.

-Group work helps many students when working on an activity.

Disadvantages:

-Group work can become messy when there are too many people in a group, or not too many people in a group. Sometimes students will get upset when they don't have something to do or if they feel like they are doing everything in the group.

Examples:

http://www.readingrockets.org/article/using-collaborative-strategic-reading

Sources:

https://www.teachthought.com/pedagogy/20-collaborative-learning-tips-and-strategies/

http://www.readingrockets.org/article/using-collaborative-strategic-reading

(Gail E. Tompkins, Literacy Early Grades)

# data[].attributes.body
Hot Seat is a role-playing activity that builds children's comprehension. This activity is called "hot seat" because children have to think quickly to respond to their classmates' questions and comments.

Advantages:

-Children deepen their understanding of the book that they're reading.

-Children explore the characters, analyze story events, draw inferences, and try out different interpretations.

Disadvantages:

-I could see where this could be a disadvantage to some students because some children are very shy and do not like shouting out answers when they are unsure about something. This could hurt their self-esteem.

Examples:

http://www.educationworld.com/a_lesson/04/lp328-04.shtml

Sources:

https://www.responsiveclassroom.org/the-hot-seat/

http://www.educationworld.com/a_lesson/04/lp328-04.shtml

(Gail E. Tompkins, Literacy Early Grades)

# data[].attributes.body
Story Retelling is used to monitor children's comprehension (Morrow, 1985). Teachers will sit one-on-one with a student and ask them to retell a story they have just read or listened to read aloud.

Advantages:

-When students participate regularly in story retelling, they expand their oral language, enhance their use of comprehension strategies, and deepen their knowledge of story structure.

Disadvantages:

-Some students forget very easily, so this could be a long process for some.

Examples:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w33-m8-geuM

Sources:
(Gail E. Tompkins, Literacy Early Grades)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w33-m8-geuM

# data[].attributes.body
Word Sorts are to help children focus on conceptual and phonological features of words and to identify recurring patterns.

Advantages:

-English learning children build skills to understand how English differs from their native language. (Helman, Bear, Templeton, Invernizzi, and Johnston, 2012)

-English learning children develop knowledge to help them predict meaning through spelling (Helman, Bear, Templeton, Invernizzi, and Johnston, 2012)

Disadvantages:

Examples: https://www.readinghorizons.com/blog/word-sorts-and-what-makes-them-so-wonderful

Source: (Gail E. Tompkins, Literacy Early Grades)

# data[].attributes.body
Interactive Read-Alouds help students get involved and interested in reading and literacy in general. This is when a person reads to a group and asks the group questions and keeps them entertained throughout the book.

Advantages:

-Children get more involved in the reading.
-Gives experiences with language that requires students to make sense of ideas. (Trelease, 2013)
-Enhances imagination, creativity, memory, and curiosity. (Bridge, 2009)

Disadvantages: the kids aren't getting to read the book themselves.

Examples: (will not post without app closing out)

https://smartchickteacher.wordpress.com/2016/07/29/interactive-read-alouds/amp/

Source:

https://www.kaplanco.com/blog/post/2015/02/19/Interactive-Read-Alouds-in-the-Classroom.aspx

# data[].attributes.body
Word Walls are to be hung throughout the classroom with words that could help the students while reading and writing.

Advantages:

-Is an ongoing, organized display of key words that provides visual reference for students throughout a unit of study or a term
-Provide visual clues and reference for language learners.
-Help students remember connections between words and concepts

Disadvantages: children could fully rely on these word walls rather than own thinking.

Examples: (will not post pic without exiting app)

https://smartchickteacher.wordpress.com/2016/07/29/interactive-read-alouds/amp/

Sources:

https://beaudubois.weebly.com/blog/the-benefits-of-word-walls