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Teachers verbalized aloud while reading a selection orally. Their verbalizations include describing things they are while they read to comprehend

Advantages:
-helps students learn how to monitor their reading to fully comprehend a text
-Heplps students look for context clues so they can make since of their reading

Disadvantages:
-takes prior preparation from the teacher
-may not help those visual learners as much as a concept map would

Cite: readingrockets.org

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Description: Allows students to gather information about a topic from several sources and lay it out in a format that asks several questions about the topic

Advantages:
-fosters critical thinking
-strengthens reading skills
-students build upon prior knowledge

Disadvantages:
- can be quite complicated looking on paper
-not visually stimulating

Cite: Readingrockets.org

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Description: an individual or assisted group reading activity where the students read along to an audio verizon of a text

Advantages:
-helps grow fluency skills with the proper expression and phrasing
-helps improve sight word recognition

Disadvantages:
- can lose the interest of those visual learners

Cite: readingrockets.org

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Description: build phonological awareness by teaching students how to segment words into individual sounds

Advantages: teaches students how to count the number of phonemes in a word
-helps students understand the alphabet better by decodeing

Disadvantages:
-can be intimidating to students
-takes time to explain , must be modeled

Cite: readingrockets.org

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Description: Choral reading is reading aloud in unison within a class or group of students.

Advantages:
- promotes comfort and confidence in reading
-provides built in support
-increases motivation to read

Disadvantages:
-can be loud
-requires good classroom management

Cite: Readingrockets.org

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Description: where students work together to solve a problem or answer a question about a selected reading. requires students to think individually with a parter and collaborate after.

Advantages:
-Helps focus attention and engage students in reading comprehension

Disadvantage:
-Takes up class time
- can be noisy

Cite: readingrockets.org

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Description: uses a graphic organizer to help students learn the elements of a book or story. By dentifrice story characters, plot, setting, problem and solution.

Advantages: students read carefully to learn the details
- Improve student comprehension
-framework for identifying elements of a story

Disadvantages:
Can be time consuming to make

Cite: readingrockets.org

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Description: this is where the students switch roles and teach In small groups focusing on 4 main strategies; summarizing, questioning, generating, and predicting

Advantages: Studetns get to guide the learning
-engages the student

DIsadvantages:
-time consuming

Cite: readingrockets.org

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Description: are written student responses that answer a question a teacher posed at the end of class

Advantages:
-Summarizes what the lesson might of been over
-assesses what students learn
-doesn't require preparation

Disadvantages:
-takes up class time

Cite: Readingrockets.org

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Description: A visual organizer that can enrich students understanding of a concept

Advantages:
-Helps the students think about a concept in many ways
-deepen understanding and comprehension

Disadvantages: can distract students from focusing on main idea

Cite: Reading rockets.org

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Description:  The students draw a vertical line about two inches from the left side of the paper, log main ideas and key words to the left and details to the right of the line, and write a brief summary of the lesson at the bottom of the page.

Advantages:
-leads to deeper students engagement and reflection
- teachers no longer have to devote instructional time to teaching a study technique

Disadvantages:
- takes time to get students used to this type of structured note taking

Cite: http://www.bath.kyschools.us.schools.bz/userfiles/2/Seven%20Literacy%20Strategies%20That%20Work.pdf

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Description: is a communication tool that uses visual symbols to express knowledge, concepts, thoughts, or ideas, and the relationships between them.

Advantages: Organizes thoughts
--Helps you stay on topic
--Helps maintain requirements
--Provides visual representation
--Develop vocabulary
--Reminder of the sequence
--Helps with fluency and transition (keeps writers on task)
--Provides a scaffold

Disadvantages:
-lots of structure
--Students view it as something else they have to do
-can be time consuming

Cite: http://www.bath.kyschools.us.schools.bz/userfiles/2/Seven%20Literacy%20Strategies%20That%20Work.pdf

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Description:  These language charts start with the question, “What do you know about the topic?” Following this discussion, students are asked, “What do you still want to know about the topic?” Once the unit of study has been completed, the language charts are used again and students answer the third question, “What did you learn about the topic?”

Advantages:
- give students a way to organize their thoughts
-provides a sense of structure
-visually appealing

Disadvantages:
- time consuming
- can be boring to students at times

Cite:http://www.bath.kyschools.us.schools.bz/userfiles/2/Seven%20Literacy%20Strategies%20That%20Work.pdf

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Description: "put those tired words to bed!" Teaches students how to use more varied and descriptive words to replace the overused ones

Advantages:
-teaches students new vocabulary
- can be an engaging concept when applied correctly in the classroom environment

Disadvantages:
- None

Cite: http://www.busyteacherscafe.com/literacy/tired_words.html

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Description: Writer's Workshop is an interdisciplinary writing technique which can build students' fluency in writing through continuous, repeated exposure to the process of writing.

Advantages:
-Kids learn to "own" their writing
-Students grow as writers through leaps ad bounds

Disadvantages:
-Takes a lot of planning! (but well worth it)
Cite: http://patternbasedwriting.com/elementary_writing_success/pros-cons-of-writer%e2%80%99s-workshop-in-elementary-and-middle-school-part-1/

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Description: Running records are a quick assessment tool used by teachers to evaluate students' reading and comprehension.  They are used to help find students' reading levels, check their fluency, and find weaknesses in comprehension

Advantages:
-Document reading progress over time
-Help teachers decide what students need to learn
-Match students with appropriate reading level books

Disadvantages:
- Assessments are not always the best means of evaluating student knowledge due to test anxiety

Cite:http://www.brighthubeducation.com/student-assessment-tools/31319-short-cuts-to-use-when-running-records/

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Description: Reader's Workshop is a framework for reading instruction that provides students with a supportive environment and involves them in authentic reading experiences that focus on the strengths and needs of each individual student.

Advantages:
- Gives the teacher a better idea of each students needs
-is fun and entertaining for students
-provides authentic reading experiences

Disadvantages:
- can be time consuming

Cite: http://www.busyteacherscafe.com/literacy/reading_workshop.html

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Description: is 'small-group reading instruction designed to provide differentiated teaching that supports students in developing reading proficiency

Advantages:
-Allows the teacher to spend time reading with individual students to track the student's reading progress and find what areas need developing.
- helps students to develop strategies to improve their reading and helps them to become independent readers while at the same time providing help and support from the teacher if needed.

Disadvantages:
-Time consuming
-children develop at different rates so not every child will fit in the reading groups

Cite:http://www.busyteacherscafe.com/literacy/guided_reading.html

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Description:  Literature Circles are small groups of students who meet to discuss a piece of literature which they have chosen.  Each member of the circle is assigned a role which helps guide the discussion

Advantages:
-Encourages students to learn from one another
- allows students to become critical thinkers as they read
-share thoughts, ask questions, and respond to reading selections

Disadvantages:
- can be loud and chaotic at times
-students have a easier time getting off topic when discussing with peers

Cite:http://www.busyteacherscafe.com/literacy/literature_circles.htm

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Description: Reader's Theater blends student's desire to perform with their learning objectives for oral reading practice. This strategy offers an entertaining and engaging means of improving student's fluency and enhancing their comprehension.

Advantages:
- Reader’s Theatre is not used solely for language arts but also can be used in subjects like social studies.
-assesses student's fluency and comprehension of a text.
- allows to student to work collaboratively

Disadvantages:
-Time consuming
- can be confusing for those students who have never been introduced to theatre

Cite :http://www.busyteacherscafe.com/literacy/readers_theater.html