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Mostly all the information if based located from information in the class textbook: Literacy in the Early Grades by Gail E. Tompkins.

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Description: A Creative, hands-on activity that requires students to identify story elements, structure, characters, and identification character's feelings, attitudes, and point of view.

Advantages:
•  Students participate in higher level thinking.
• Forms and increases students creativity.
•  Can be critiqued to fit all teaching subjects.

Disadvantages:
• Difficult to understand and comprehend what the students understand about the story or subject.
• Students can become unfocused and draw whatever they like rather than draw what pertains to the reading or subject.

ELL Scaffolding:  ELL students can work with Non-ELL students to review the story or subject and work on drawing together. This helps the ELL students grasp the concept of the subject and ask questions when needed.
Citation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5obK_jbw7aU

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Description: Reading and writing procedure that is based on students language and experiences.

Advantages:

•  Uses students personal experience.
• A flexible strategy that can be used as a whole class, within small groups, or individually.
•  Students use their own experiences and creations for writing.

Disadvantages:

• No real structure with writing is taking place.
• Usually extremely time-consuming.
• Sometimes depending on schools, demographics students may not have prior experiences with the subject.

ELL Scaffolding: Lets students focus on reading and writing skills without drilling the phonetics and basic skills.
Citation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hXZT7WpMXQM

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Description: Teachers sit with students one-on-one and ask them to retell the story they've just read or listened to.

Advantages:

•  Teachers monitor students comprehension more closely.
• Students learn proper summarizing techniques.
•  Students receive individualized attention from the teacher, to show what they know about the story.
•  Oral language, vocabulary, phrases, and sentence patterns enhance.

Disadvantages:

• Students want to explain the whole story, instead of summarizing it.
• Meeting individually with students require large amounts of teaching time.

ELL Scaffolding: Having ELL students first retell the story in their native language then repeat it back in English, or they can write it in English and read it back in their native language, which can encourage them to become more open and become more relaxed.
Citation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPgAQFRGcDI

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Description: Collection of words posted in the classroom that students use for study activities and refer to when they're writing.

Advantages:

•  Multiple words that students have difficulty with are available consistently.
• Phonemic Word walls can be used, to not only teach new words but the phonemic behind the word.
• Can incorporate all subject vocabulary.

Disadvantages:

• Words can sometimes be a Tier 1 instead of Tier 2 or 3.
• Students may have access to the word; however, forget how to pronounce the word correctly.

ELL Scaffolding: If possible post pictures by the words on the word wall to give ELL students a visual tool as they learn the new words. ELL students can even create a word spelling notebook, they can practice writing the word, its kid friendly definitions and draw a picture to help understand the specific word.
Citation: http://www.1plus1plus1equals1.net/2014/07/personal-word-wall-printables/

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Description: Students write their reactions to books they are reading or listening to as the teacher reads aloud.

Advantages:
•  Students increase deeper comprehension.
• While students read more they increase their reading skills and levels.
•  Students are given an opportunity to choose their own reading.

Disadvantages:
• Requires students to document their time reading.
• Requires parents to sign the documented reading logs
• Makes reading a requirement instead of an individual want.

ELL Scaffolding: Have ELL students draw out their reading log as the teacher reads, or after they finish reading, to grasp their understanding of the story that was read.
Citation: http://www.tarheelstateteacher.com/2016/08/how-to-ensure-your-students-are-reading.html

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Description: Cards in which illustrations and text from a picture book have been attached. Two copies of a picture book are glued to cardboard to tell and show a timeline of the story.

Advantages:

•  Students sequence skills increase.
• Visualization and structure of the story are carefully reviewed by the students.
•  Can be used for multiple activities, subjects, or focus units.

Disadvantages:

• Students can sequence incorrectly and can cause them to continuously make the mistake because the teacher can't be present at all times.
• Difficult to assess students understanding of the reading.
• Students can mix up readings they have read while creating storyboards.

ELL Scaffolding: ELL's review the story before and after the reading. ELL's can also draw out their storyboards to better share their understanding of what they have read, and increase their writing skills.
Citation: http://www.storyboardthat.com/

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Description:  Writing a message or text as a class with the teacher or individually.

Advantages:
•  Encourages creativity from students.
• Displays and encourages proper writing skills.
•  Very interactive strategy or encourages interaction from the whole class.

Disadvantages:
• Can decreases higher level thinking.
• Mostly teacher-centered strategy.
• Students tend to want to write every little detail about the reading.

ELL Scaffolding: Models proper writing for ELL students and gives them the opportunity to write and show what they understand about the material read.  ELL students can draw what they know or gather pictures to create a story timeline of the story that was read.
Citation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4FsR1xiI5o
http://www.mrsrichardsonsclass.com/interactive-writing-in-the-classroom/

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Description: Engages students in the reading process before, during, and after reading by introducing the book, and including students personal background knowledge, include students in conversations and questions during the reading and respond to the book after.

Advantages:
•  Students develop an understanding of a topic by asking questions and actively engaged with the reading.
• Shows students to use questioning and prediction skills.
•  Models proper phonemes, graphemes, and reading patterns.

Disadvantages:
• Some students may just be listening and not actually interacting with the reading.
• Outgoing students tend to speak and interact more than shy students.

ELL Scaffolding: ELL students can write down their questions or thoughts as the story is being read aloud, to improve writing and English. This can help teachers assess what ELL students are having trouble understanding within the reading as well.
Citation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKyFre_2Z0I
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HlrOoLqHUVs

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Description: Discussions about stories in which students explore the big ideas, deepen their comprehension, and reflect on their feelings.

Advantages:

•  Student-centered strategy.
• Students encourage others to contribute to the conversation.
•  Students can develop a  relationship between community building and understanding literature.

Disadvantages:

• Grand Conversations can take a lot of class time.
• Students can get off topic easily.
• Shy students can have a difficult time speaking up and sometimes of ran by the other students.

ELL Scaffolding: Ask ELL students to speak and include their personal thoughts, feelings, and experiences with the class or to write, draw, and share it with the teacher about the discussion.
Citation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pcnt3luhME0

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Description: Teasers that are given to the students to introduce books and gain students interest in reading them.

Advantages:
• Students read books they choose.
• When given a summary of books students can become excited and interested in the specific book.
•  Students can actively engage with the reading by asking questions and their thoughts about the reading.

Disadvantages:
• Book talks can be very lengthy.
• Often constant with repetition.
• Can be overwhelming for students because it contains a lot of information.

ELL Scaffolding: Encourage ELL students to read and review the story summary and either write or draw out predictions of the story in a group with other Non-ELL students.
Citation: http://teacher.scholastic.com/products/tradebooks/booktalks.htm#discussion
http://millikin.libguides.com/childrens-literature/booktalks