https://padlet.com/lonaritchie/LiteracyStrategies EL 316 en-us 2016-06-15 16:24:26 UTC 2025-11-03 06:19:03 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/File.png lonaritchie https://padlet.com/lonaritchie/LiteracyStrategies/wish/114743449 Description: Teachers use K-W-L charts to activate students' prior knowledge about a topic and to scaffold them as they ask questions and organize the information they're learning.
Advantages:
** Students combine new information with background knowledge
** Students become curious and more engaged in the learning process
** The teacher can introduce complex ideas in a nonthreatening way
**Students use talk to explore ideas
Disadvantages:
** This strategy is often overused

Tompkins, Gail E. (2013) 50 Literacy Strategies, Boston, MA: Pearson.]]> 2016-06-15 16:28:00 UTC https://padlet.com/lonaritchie/LiteracyStrategies/wish/114743449 lonaritchie https://padlet.com/lonaritchie/LiteracyStrategies/wish/114763596 Description: These are visual organizers that can assist students' understanding of new conepts. Students are able to make connections between words or phrases and the main idea.
Advantages:
** Helps students organize new information
** Helps students make meaningful connections
** Easy to construct and use with any content area
Disadvantages:
** Difficult for non-visual learners
**Time consuming to create and grade

Scaffolding For ELLs:  (For 317 only)
**English learners can use a combination of words and pictures. The visual representation will help them organize ideas.

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