https://padlet.com/ercrank1s/orkdfqcu6b0s Upper Level Strategies en-us 2017-11-09 16:37:23 UTC 2017-11-30 01:49:18 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Brightnessdown.png ercrank1s https://padlet.com/ercrank1s/orkdfqcu6b0s/wish/205366572 Description: This is a comprehension strategy that is used before the reading is done. Student's will read several topics with key concepts that will be in the text. Often they are structured statements that students can agree or disagree with.
Advantage: This guide stimulates students interest in a topic to set the purpose for the reading. Helps connect new information with prior knowledge and to help build curiosity over the new text. 
Disadvantages: Some students might not get anything really out of these agree/disagree statements. Sometimes a topic is not broad enough to make these types of questions.
ELLS: For ELLS if the worksheet is clearly typed out and they can use a simple format to do so.]]> 2017-11-09 16:39:24 UTC https://padlet.com/ercrank1s/orkdfqcu6b0s/wish/205366572 ercrank1s https://padlet.com/ercrank1s/orkdfqcu6b0s/wish/211111013 Description: This is a type of graphic organizer that helps students learn elements of a story. Being able to learn details like plot and characters.
Advantages: This help students improve their comprehension. A framework for identifying the elements of the story.
Disadvantages: This can confuse a student if they have a different idea when it comes to important elements in the story they are reading.
ELLS: This can be good to use for ELL students if the layout is simple and the students can clearly read what they need to put. Having the answers already there and the student can just choose the correct answer for them to see.]]> 2017-11-28 19:13:48 UTC https://padlet.com/ercrank1s/orkdfqcu6b0s/wish/211111013 ercrank1s https://padlet.com/ercrank1s/orkdfqcu6b0s/wish/211111153 Description: This is a type of graphic organizer that helps the student organize what they know, what they want to find out, and what they were taught.
Advantages: This helps students engage into prior knowledge, learn new topics, and can help a teacher monitor the students thinking.
Disadvantages: Students might get behind easily if they miss a class and they cannot catch up together with the whole class. Students might stray off when using the chart.
ELLS: These students might get confused but if they have help with either the teacher or another student they can learn how to correctly organize their work. ]]> 2017-11-28 19:14:03 UTC https://padlet.com/ercrank1s/orkdfqcu6b0s/wish/211111153 ercrank1s https://padlet.com/ercrank1s/orkdfqcu6b0s/wish/211111520 Description: This is a strategy that is an instructional resource to monitor students fluency improvement.  Repeated readings, under timed conditions, of familiar instructional level text can increase students' reading speed which can improve comprehension.
Advantages: Improves students reading rates and improves reading accuracy, a second aspect of fluency, and leads to improved comprehension.
Disadvantages: Some students might not be able to learn at this rate. Others may not get anything truly out of it to help their fluency.
ELLS: ELL students could really benefit with this strategy if they are truly behind their fluency. This can help them learn english better and can help their reading speed. ]]> 2017-11-28 19:14:35 UTC https://padlet.com/ercrank1s/orkdfqcu6b0s/wish/211111520 ercrank1s https://padlet.com/ercrank1s/orkdfqcu6b0s/wish/211115168 Description: (I-chart) This is a chart that students can use that can help them gather all types of information about a certain topic from several sources. Teacher will have several questions about the certain topic.
Advantages: This helps with critical thinking and will strengthen reading skills. Also an evaluation tool for the teacher to know how much a student knows about the topic or their interest level about it.
Disadvantages: Making sure the questions were simple enough for each grade level and for each student.
ELLS: Students can use this chart for an overview on how to find information about a topic. Making a topic they will know about and are interested in. ]]> 2017-11-28 19:19:45 UTC https://padlet.com/ercrank1s/orkdfqcu6b0s/wish/211115168 ercrank1s https://padlet.com/ercrank1s/orkdfqcu6b0s/wish/211115433 Description: Readers theater is a strategy where students are involved in oral reading to develop fluency within a group. Students do not need to memorize their lines but may need to reread several times.
Advantage: Creates fluency while reading aloud to the class, while building confidence.
Disadvantage: Students who really have a fear with reading aloud might have a breakdown when teacher is making them read in front of the class.
ELLS: Students that are ELLs will be able to listen to the other students read and can try to manipulate the same pronunciation or can get help by the student standing next to them.]]> 2017-11-28 19:20:10 UTC https://padlet.com/ercrank1s/orkdfqcu6b0s/wish/211115433 ercrank1s https://padlet.com/ercrank1s/orkdfqcu6b0s/wish/211115683 Description: Student will be using all five senses when describing a person, place, or thing in a story. Making the story more interesting with larger descriptive words to make the story more engaging. 
Advantage: Helps the students writing to be more interesting by using new vocabulary. Helps the student clarify their understanding of their thinking.
Disadvantage: Some students might not know enough descriptive words to help their writing or might not be able to write as clearly as they can speak.
ELLS: An ELL student may not know exactly what the words truly mean, can have trouble writing what they are thinking but this can help them use either the computer or dictionary to seek new words and find new definitions. ]]> 2017-11-28 19:20:31 UTC https://padlet.com/ercrank1s/orkdfqcu6b0s/wish/211115683 ercrank1s https://padlet.com/ercrank1s/orkdfqcu6b0s/wish/211115953 Description: This strategy helps students stay engaged within the text. The students will come up with questions to ask the author and the text. Using questions like:" What is the authors message?", "Does the author explain this clearly?"
Advantages: This engages the students in the reading so they can fully understand the text. Helps the students strategy of critiquing someone else's writing.
Disadvantages: If students do not know this strategy they might not understand fully what questions they are needing to answer.
ELLS: Students that are learning english can figure out how to correctly critique someones writing by having correct questions to ask with an outline to use. ]]> 2017-11-28 19:20:54 UTC https://padlet.com/ercrank1s/orkdfqcu6b0s/wish/211115953 ercrank1s https://padlet.com/ercrank1s/orkdfqcu6b0s/wish/211116240 Description: Students repeat in their own words a story by using this strategy. There are fingers and each finger has a meaning: setting, characters, problem, events/episodes, and ending/solution.
Advantages: By retelling a story in the students own words, they will be able to make connections to things they know and understand. This is a critical key point for comprehension.
Disadvantages: Some students may have some trouble communicating in their own words and all the details from the story.
ELLS: These students can use this as a guide to help them understand how to correctly summarize and retell a story. ]]> 2017-11-28 19:21:17 UTC https://padlet.com/ercrank1s/orkdfqcu6b0s/wish/211116240 ercrank1s https://padlet.com/ercrank1s/orkdfqcu6b0s/wish/211116757 Description: This is a comprehension strategy where students will read the beginning sentences from a book then will be making predictions about the book.
Advantages: This strategy helps students focus their attention on the book, poem, or play with what they can tell on the first lines.
Disadvantages: Students might not be able to grasp what is going to happen by the first line and this can cause they to become confused throughout the entire book they are reading.
ELLS: ELL students can use this strategy to help them figure out how to make predictions correctly while reading and fully understanding the concepts that are happening. ]]> 2017-11-28 19:22:02 UTC https://padlet.com/ercrank1s/orkdfqcu6b0s/wish/211116757