Literacy Strategies by Sarah Newman https://padlet.com/buildabear1/3tly9jebjsj9 317 learning strategies en-us 2018-01-31 02:15:01 UTC 2018-04-26 16:20:51 UTC hello@padlet.com Book Talks buildabear1 https://padlet.com/buildabear1/3tly9jebjsj9/wish/226397637 Description
-Are brief teasers that teachers or students give to introduce books and interest the reader.
Advantages:
-Gets the reader excited to read the book.
-Student centered activity.
Disadvantages:
-Giving away the best parts of the book.


]]> 2018-01-31 02:20:03 UTC https://padlet.com/buildabear1/3tly9jebjsj9/wish/226397637 Anticipation Guides buildabear1 https://padlet.com/buildabear1/3tly9jebjsj9/wish/226399188 Description
-An Anticipation Guide is a series of statements that require students to use their background
knowledge and make predictions.
Advantages
- Helps students to recall prior knowledge.
- Allows students to explore their own thoughts.
- Enhances the student discussion.
Disadvantages
- Prior knowledge of the topic is needed.
- Can not be used during the reading.


]]> 2018-01-31 02:32:26 UTC https://padlet.com/buildabear1/3tly9jebjsj9/wish/226399188 Word buildabear1 https://padlet.com/buildabear1/3tly9jebjsj9/wish/228391822 Description
- A word map is a visual organizer that promotes vocabulary development.
Advantages
- Adaptable for all levels of students.
-Engages the students.
-Can be created easily.
Disadvantages
-Hard to read for some students.
- If used for partner work students can get distracted.

]]> 2018-02-05 23:18:42 UTC https://padlet.com/buildabear1/3tly9jebjsj9/wish/228391822 Hot Seat buildabear1 https://padlet.com/buildabear1/3tly9jebjsj9/wish/228398062 Description
-A role playing activity that builds children's comprehension. Children assume the role of a main character while the classmates question them.
Advantages
- Engages the students.
- Gets the students excited.
- Lets the students teach other students.
Disadvantages-
- Being on the spot can make students nervous.
- Students might have trouble answering more in depth questions on the spot. ]]> 2018-02-06 00:07:50 UTC https://padlet.com/buildabear1/3tly9jebjsj9/wish/228398062 Interactive Read-Alouds buildabear1 https://padlet.com/buildabear1/3tly9jebjsj9/wish/228399865 Description
- Children engage in listening and talking about a text that is read aloud.
Advantages
- Enhances imagination and creativity.
- Grows background knowledge.
- Increases students' listening skills.
- Builds classroom community.
Disadvantages-
- Students can get distracted easily.
- Students might not understand the text when it is being read aloud. ]]> 2018-02-06 00:22:52 UTC https://padlet.com/buildabear1/3tly9jebjsj9/wish/228399865 Collaborative Books buildabear1 https://padlet.com/buildabear1/3tly9jebjsj9/wish/228401754 Description
- Children work together to create a book. They each do one page.
Advantages
- Promotes team work.
- Lets the students be creative in their own way.
- Allows students to let their imagination take them wherever they want to go.
Disadvantages
- Students can get off task.
- Students might not agree with their group or partner.

Tompkins, Gail E. (2013) 50 Literacy Strategies, Boston, MA: Pearson.]]> 2018-02-06 00:35:59 UTC https://padlet.com/buildabear1/3tly9jebjsj9/wish/228401754 Graphic Organizers buildabear1 https://padlet.com/buildabear1/3tly9jebjsj9/wish/229251545 Description
- Is a visual display that demonstrates relationships between facts, concepts, or ideas.
Advantages
- Guides the learners thinking.
-Make content easier to understand and learn.
- Help improve focus.
Disadvantages
- Thoughts can get messy.
- Visual learners may only benifit from using it.

]]> 2018-02-07 18:22:33 UTC https://padlet.com/buildabear1/3tly9jebjsj9/wish/229251545 Story Maps buildabear1 https://padlet.com/buildabear1/3tly9jebjsj9/wish/229261846 Description
- Are visual representations of the elements that make up a narrative.
Advantages
- Helps students focus on the important elements.
- Can be used with all grade levels.
- Helps the students understand the whole story.
Disadvantages
- Can be hard to use for students who did not understand the story.
- Thoughts can get messy and hard to read.

]]> 2018-02-07 18:39:08 UTC https://padlet.com/buildabear1/3tly9jebjsj9/wish/229261846 Think Aloud buildabear1 https://padlet.com/buildabear1/3tly9jebjsj9/wish/229266645 Description
- Teachers verbalize aloud while reading a text. Their verbalizations include describing things they're doing as they read.
Advantages
- Helps studetns learn to monitor their thinking as they read.
- Improves comprehension.
- It slows down the reading process and allows students to monitor their understanding of a text.
Disadvantages
- Hard for fast readers to slow themselves down.
- Some students might have trouble monitoring them selves and reading at the same time.
 ]]> 2018-02-07 18:47:38 UTC https://padlet.com/buildabear1/3tly9jebjsj9/wish/229266645 Alphabet Matching buildabear1 https://padlet.com/buildabear1/3tly9jebjsj9/wish/229276581 Description
- Teaching the understanding that there are systematic and predictable relationships between written letters and spoken sounds.
Advantages
- Letter naming is a strong predictor of reading success.
- Learning letter names helps a child learn letter sounds.
- It helps the students develop their understanding of the alphabetic principal.
Disadvantages
- Spoken languages are always changing.
- Dialect may not be the problem for the spelling improvement.]]> 2018-02-07 19:05:00 UTC https://padlet.com/buildabear1/3tly9jebjsj9/wish/229276581 Word Wall buildabear1 https://padlet.com/buildabear1/3tly9jebjsj9/wish/254197054 Description
- A word wall is a collection of words which are displayed in large visible letters on a wall, bulletin board, or other display surface in a classroom.
Advantages
- They provide a permanent model for high frequency words.
- They help students see patterns and relationship in words, thus building phonics and spelling skills.

Disadvantages
- Student may only know the word and not the meaning.
Ell's
- For these students, supply them with the words written on piece of paper. Tape the word wall paper to their desk for them to refer to. 
- Make students a mini word wall with the english word and the Spanish word under it.
]]> 2018-04-22 23:06:14 UTC https://padlet.com/buildabear1/3tly9jebjsj9/wish/254197054 Concept Maps buildabear1 https://padlet.com/buildabear1/3tly9jebjsj9/wish/254197590 Description
- A concept map is a visual organizer that can enrich students' understanding of a new concept.
Advantages
- It helps children organize new information.
- It helps students to make meaningful connections between the main idea and other information.
- They're easy to construct and can be used within any content area.
Disadvantages
- Ineffective at certain learning stages.
- Ineffective for some learning styles.
Ell's
-Have students practice writing skills by asking students to write on their own concept map.
- When appropriate have students draw pictures. ]]> 2018-04-22 23:13:08 UTC https://padlet.com/buildabear1/3tly9jebjsj9/wish/254197590 Exit slips buildabear1 https://padlet.com/buildabear1/3tly9jebjsj9/wish/254198398 Description
- Exit slips are written student responses to questions teachers pose at the end of a class or lesson.
Advantages
- They provide teachers with an informal measure of how well students have understood a topic or lesson.
- They help students reflect on what they have learned.
-They teach students to think critically.
Disadvantages
- At certain times can be an ineffective way to gage students knowledge.
Ell's
- Have a variety of exit slips and differentiate which students get which ones.
- Allow students to work together on exit slips.]]> 2018-04-22 23:21:42 UTC https://padlet.com/buildabear1/3tly9jebjsj9/wish/254198398 Choral Reading buildabear1 https://padlet.com/buildabear1/3tly9jebjsj9/wish/254198970 Description
- Choral reading is reading aloud in unison with a whole class or group of students.
Advantages
- It helps improve the ability to read sight words.
- It provides a model for fluent reading as students listen.
- It can provide less skilled readers the opportunity to practice and receive support before being required to read on their own.
Disadvantages
- Can leave students behind.
- If students do not do well with reading out loud it can came them nervous.
Ells
- Pair together students with different levels of ability and have them each read a different section. ]]> 2018-04-22 23:27:24 UTC https://padlet.com/buildabear1/3tly9jebjsj9/wish/254198970 RAFT buildabear1 https://padlet.com/buildabear1/3tly9jebjsj9/wish/254199515 Description
- RAFT is a writing strategy that helps students understand their roles as writers, the audience they will address, the varied formats for writing, and the topic they'll be writing about.
Advantages
- It includes writing from different viewpoints.
- It helps students learn important writing skills such as audience, main idea, and organization.
- It can be used across various content areas.
Disadvantages
- May not allow students to explore other perspectives.
Ell's
- Have the students review the concept and assignment orally first.
- Students can decide on their own topic. 
- Teacher can work together with the student to complete the task. ]]> 2018-04-22 23:33:42 UTC https://padlet.com/buildabear1/3tly9jebjsj9/wish/254199515 Readers Theater buildabear1 https://padlet.com/buildabear1/3tly9jebjsj9/wish/254200300 Description
- Reader's theater is a strategy for developing reading fluency. It involves children in oral reading through reading parts in scripts.
Advantages
- It promotes fluency.
-It helps readers learn to read aloud with expression.
- It helps build reading confidence.
Disadvantages
- Could be time consuming.
- Students who have stage fright can get anxious.
Ells
- Use easier scripts with fewer words for younger or struggling readers.
- Have students read parts together.]]> 2018-04-22 23:41:50 UTC https://padlet.com/buildabear1/3tly9jebjsj9/wish/254200300 Shared Reading buildabear1 https://padlet.com/buildabear1/3tly9jebjsj9/wish/254200776 Description
-Shared Reading is an interactive reading experience that occurs when students join in or share the reading of a book or other text while guided and supported by a teacher.
Advantages
- It provides struggling readers with necessary support.
- Shared reading of predictable text can build sight word knowledge and reading fluency.
- Allows students to enjoy materials that they may not be able to read on their own.
Disadvantages
- Might be difficult to asses the students learning.
- Can be hard to find a book that interests all students.
Ell's
- Have Spanish copies of the shared reading book.
- Use sentence strips and have students retell or build the story by putting the strips in order.

]]> 2018-04-22 23:48:09 UTC https://padlet.com/buildabear1/3tly9jebjsj9/wish/254200776 Partner Reading buildabear1 https://padlet.com/buildabear1/3tly9jebjsj9/wish/254201625 Description
- Partner Reading is a cooperative learning strategy in which two students work together to read an assigned text.
Advantages
- It allows students to take turns reading and provide each other with feedback as a way to monitor comprehension.
- It provides a model of fluent reading and helps students learn decoding skills by offering positive feedback.
Disadvantages
- Students can become off task or distracted by their partner.
Ell's
- Story retelling: students work together to retell the story by providing input and correcting mistakes together.


]]> 2018-04-22 23:56:24 UTC https://padlet.com/buildabear1/3tly9jebjsj9/wish/254201625 Onset/Rime Games buildabear1 https://padlet.com/buildabear1/3tly9jebjsj9/wish/254202960 Description
- Similar to teaching beginning readers about rhyme, teaching children about onset and rime helps them recognize common chunks within words. This can help students decode new words when reading and spell words when writing.
Advantages
- They help children learn about word families, which can lay the foundation for future spelling strategies.
-Teaching children to attend to onset and rime will have a positive effect on their literacy skills.
Disadvantages
- Some students might have trouble decoding words.
Ell's
-Use pictures instead of words in activities for younger and lower level readers.]]> 2018-04-23 00:07:54 UTC https://padlet.com/buildabear1/3tly9jebjsj9/wish/254202960 Story Sequence buildabear1 https://padlet.com/buildabear1/3tly9jebjsj9/wish/254203976 Description
- Sequencing refers to the identification of the components of a story — the beginning, middle, and end — and also to the ability to retell the events within a given text in the order in which they occurred.
Advantages
- It assists with comprehension, especially for narrative texts.
- Sequence structures help students of varying abilities organize information and ideas efficiently.
Disadvantages
- Students may have a hard time following a story or understanding the sequence of events through out a book or story.
Ell's
-Model this strategy using a book with very clear components to help students understand each component.
-Differentiate which sequence chart to give to which students. The beginning-middle-end format is the simplest; other more complex maps can be used with more advanced students.

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