https://padlet.com/lesliediannedean/x3vvqoor9z5w Made with whimsy en-us 2017-02-02 15:27:06 UTC 2023-12-18 00:36:20 UTC hello@padlet.com lesliediannedean https://padlet.com/lesliediannedean/x3vvqoor9z5w/wish/155812075 Description: Choral reading is when students participate in reading material out loud in unity as an entire class or within small groups.
Advantages: One advantage of choral reading is its positive effect on reading fluency. Another advantage of this strategy is the motivation and confidence it gives children, making them want to participate with the guidance of their classmates.
Disadvantages: A disadvantage of this strategy is the inability to assess individuals progress. ]]> 2017-02-23 16:46:54 UTC https://padlet.com/lesliediannedean/x3vvqoor9z5w/wish/155812075 lesliediannedean https://padlet.com/lesliediannedean/x3vvqoor9z5w/wish/159067732 Description: Teacher models reading segments of text, paragraphs or sentences, children repeat/echo same text back to instructor.
Advantages: Echo reading promotes confidence in reading various types/genres of text. It as helps in teaching sight words necessary to become a fluent reader.
Disadvantages: Echo reading has little to no effect on reading comprehension. Memorization plays a big role in this strategy. Therefore, not the best technique to develop concrete literacy skills.

]]> 2017-03-09 17:50:52 UTC https://padlet.com/lesliediannedean/x3vvqoor9z5w/wish/159067732 lesliediannedean https://padlet.com/lesliediannedean/x3vvqoor9z5w/wish/159412013 Description: Students discuss and explore the big ideas within stories they've read.They talk about things, such as what they don't understand, and what they find interesting. Hand raising is not normally necessary, the students take turns speaking aloud in a conversational manner. 
Advantages: Grand conversations build a community within a classroom, make children feel more open to expressing themselves and sharing individualized opinions. This strategy is also a wonderful way to address the idea of theme within literature.
Disadvantages: Students may put down others ideas, and disgaurd valid opinions, it is necessary to teach respect before engaging students in grand conversations. Another disadvantage is that conversations have the ability to get off task and unrelated to topic at hand.]]> 2017-03-11 03:01:54 UTC https://padlet.com/lesliediannedean/x3vvqoor9z5w/wish/159412013 lesliediannedean https://padlet.com/lesliediannedean/x3vvqoor9z5w/wish/159413155 Description: Students create/ draw portraits of characters from stories they've read. The portrait displays the physical descriptions of the character. Other pages are attached that expand of the characters thoughts, personality traits, and story events the character is involved in. 
Advantages: With open-minded portraits children not only focus on the physical traits of characters but get to understand them on a different level, entering their minds through details described within stories. This learning strategy also lets students use their creativity.
Disadvantages: Some children may focus too much on the illustrations product and not enough on the context of truly getting to understand characters. ]]> 2017-03-11 03:31:17 UTC https://padlet.com/lesliediannedean/x3vvqoor9z5w/wish/159413155 lesliediannedean https://padlet.com/lesliediannedean/x3vvqoor9z5w/wish/159413815 Description: Reading logs are journals in which children write about the literature they have been reading and then later share their entires with other students and or instructors.
Advantages: reading logs help teachers assess the comprehension skills being meet by students. This strategy also enhances writing skills, the more students write the better they will get at it. Lastly, children are encouraged to express the questions they have about text within reading logs, this helps instructors understand what material is not being understood and must be discussed as a class or within small groups.
Disadvantages: Giving the children the freedom to write about the ideas they believe are important may lead to them focusing on details within literature which is not key to the main idea. Writing within journals, may also become off topic. Creating prompts for each entry may help fix these disadvantages]]> 2017-03-11 03:53:20 UTC https://padlet.com/lesliediannedean/x3vvqoor9z5w/wish/159413815 lesliediannedean https://padlet.com/lesliediannedean/x3vvqoor9z5w/wish/159414183 Description: Revising groups are used when students finishing writing rough drafts. They are told to meet in small groups and edit each other's work. They reflect on the ideas at hand and make suggestions to make one another stronger writers.
Advantages: Children help each other create stronger more influencing writing works while focusing on writing aspects such as; word choice, sentence structure, grammar, and voice.
Disadvantages: Some students may not know how to give proper constructive criticism and instead break down the writing confidence of classmates. Another disadvantage is students being mislead, being told by classmates to make changes in which actually make their writing weaker. ]]> 2017-03-11 04:07:27 UTC https://padlet.com/lesliediannedean/x3vvqoor9z5w/wish/159414183 lesliediannedean https://padlet.com/lesliediannedean/x3vvqoor9z5w/wish/159414649 Description: With word ladders, students take one word and adjust it one letter at a time to make new words. Students try to create as many words as possible and relate the first word and the last word created in some way or another. 
Advantages: Word ladders build vocabulary as well as enhance phonics skills in young children. This strategy also helps students catch on to spelling patterns. This strategy also teaches relations between words since the first and last word in the ladder must relate or be opposites.
Disadvantages: Children may begin practicing the spelling of words that do not exist, making up their own words in order to complete the puzzle. ]]> 2017-03-11 04:20:47 UTC https://padlet.com/lesliediannedean/x3vvqoor9z5w/wish/159414649 lesliediannedean https://padlet.com/lesliediannedean/x3vvqoor9z5w/wish/159415064 Description: Children are given cut out words, and sort them by categories. This can be done in a variety of different ways. Some examples of sorting categories are by noun, verbs, adjectives or by long and short vowel sounds. This strategy can be done individually or in groups. 
Advantages: Sort sorts teach the following skills; vocabulary, spelling and phonics. Sorting words helps children look deeper into their meaning and less of just letters put together,
Disadvantages: Thoughts on categories could be confused with definition. The way words are sorted may vary from child to child and it is difficult to assess understanding without concrete material to look over. ]]> 2017-03-11 04:36:10 UTC https://padlet.com/lesliediannedean/x3vvqoor9z5w/wish/159415064 lesliediannedean https://padlet.com/lesliediannedean/x3vvqoor9z5w/wish/159415392 Description: A word wall is a display of vocabulary words in the classroom. The words on the wall have most likely been words that the children have learned and been tested on throughout the school year.
Advantages : Word walls help children when writing to become more independent and not ask the instructor how to spell particular words. It is also a constant reminder to students of the words they have learned to spell and should remember how to spell by the end of the school year.
Disadvantages: Students could become dependent on the word wall for spelling and avoid sounding out or chunking words. Phonics skills could be hurt with the use of a word wall.]]> 2017-03-11 04:52:57 UTC https://padlet.com/lesliediannedean/x3vvqoor9z5w/wish/159415392 lesliediannedean https://padlet.com/lesliediannedean/x3vvqoor9z5w/wish/159415514 Description: The hot seat learning strategy is a role-playing activity. Children pretend to be characters from literature they are reading as they sit in the hot seat. Then, classmates ask the "character" questions, the student in the hotseat  must reply to the questions as if they really are the character from the book/story.
Advantages: This strategy helps children put themselves in the characters shoes and understand thier thoughts as well as actions. This strategy also helps the children asking the questions because they must evaluate the text to ask proper puzzling questions.
Disadvanges: This activity can be taken out of context easily, keeping teh students on task is important. Goofiness and fun and games can only be taken to a certian extent for learning to be obtained. ]]> 2017-03-11 05:00:53 UTC https://padlet.com/lesliediannedean/x3vvqoor9z5w/wish/159415514 lesliediannedean https://padlet.com/lesliediannedean/x3vvqoor9z5w/wish/164080133 Description: Book talks are teasers used to get children interested in new literature. It can compare to a simple summary of a story that doesn't give away the ending. 
Advantages: Giving students a proper book talk before starting new literature is necessary to increase interest as well as build significant amounts of background knowledge.
Disadvantages: Giving away too much information about a book could reduce interest therefore it is important to give the right amount of book talk never giving away key events in which make the story exciting to young minds. Living just the right amount of mystery is key. ]]> 2017-04-01 01:41:30 UTC https://padlet.com/lesliediannedean/x3vvqoor9z5w/wish/164080133 lesliediannedean https://padlet.com/lesliediannedean/x3vvqoor9z5w/wish/164080457 Description: This strategy is when a passage from a significant piece of literature is taken and edited. In editing, words are taken out and replaced with blanks for the students to fill in with what they feel best fits.
Advantages: Cloze procedure builds comprehension skills and helps students use context clues to make conclusions on which words should fill in the blanks
Disadvantages: If the student struggles with looking for context clues this procedure could be pretty complicated and the words choices may make little to no sense. Some students may also not take the assignment seriously and instead make a joke of the matter choosing silly words to make the assignment inappropriate. ]]> 2017-04-01 01:54:03 UTC https://padlet.com/lesliediannedean/x3vvqoor9z5w/wish/164080457 lesliediannedean https://padlet.com/lesliediannedean/x3vvqoor9z5w/wish/164080713 Description: In this strategy students are assigned to small groups to make books of their own. Each student will be assigned to create a few pages and once bound together, they create a mater piece together.
Advantages: This strategy is beneficial in allowing students to use their creative writing and illustrating abilities. It also teaches great collaboration skills creating strong professional/friendly bounds between peers.
Disadvantage: Some students may not work well with others and in some cases particular students are left doing much more work than the rest which is unfair. Work must be distributed evenly. Creating stability among partner work is vital before assigning the creation of collaborative books. ]]> 2017-04-01 02:03:29 UTC https://padlet.com/lesliediannedean/x3vvqoor9z5w/wish/164080713 lesliediannedean https://padlet.com/lesliediannedean/x3vvqoor9z5w/wish/164081012 Description: K-W-L charts are used to evaluate students. The K stands for, Know which is where students write the information they know. The W stands for Want to know and lastly, the L stands for learned. The K and W are filled out before the lesson and the L is filled out following the lesson and knowledge is obtained.
Advantage: This type of assessment is amazing in order to test for background knowledge, learning what your students are interested in learning and testing to understanding following a lesson. 
Disadvantage: If done with a reading assignment the W in K-W-L reduces the amount of questioning done during reading since students are thinking primarily about the questions they asked before reading. K-W-L charts are normally done in the formation of a worksheet which is not often students first choice when given an assignment. Worksheets often do to not motivate young learners. ]]> 2017-04-01 02:16:16 UTC https://padlet.com/lesliediannedean/x3vvqoor9z5w/wish/164081012 lesliediannedean https://padlet.com/lesliediannedean/x3vvqoor9z5w/wish/164081369 Description: Letters and or groups of letter are given to students on cards or blocks. Students are told to move letters and letter groups around to create as many words as possible.
Advantages: This activity improves spelling abilities and helps children in forming relationships between words enhancing morphemic analysis. 
Disadvantage: Students could be creating words that are not real and begin using them in writing, close monitoring will help reduce this problematic situation. Students may also have problems in the area of pronunciation of word although they mat be spelling them correctly. ]]> 2017-04-01 02:30:47 UTC https://padlet.com/lesliediannedean/x3vvqoor9z5w/wish/164081369 lesliediannedean https://padlet.com/lesliediannedean/x3vvqoor9z5w/wish/164081647 Description: Mini lessons can be done with a variety of subject material. They are normally between 15-30 minutes long. 
Advantage: Mini lessons are great for teaching material children may not find too much personal schema in, they are short enough so that attention is kept so that they obtain knowledge instead of being off-task.
Disadvantages: The short amount of time given to teach a mini lesson may lead to information over load. Too much info being taught in a short amount of time can have negative effect so that children can not distinguish key details in the lesson being taught. Consider breaking a lesson into many mini lessons over a period of time to prevent rushing instruction. ]]> 2017-04-01 02:43:03 UTC https://padlet.com/lesliediannedean/x3vvqoor9z5w/wish/164081647 lesliediannedean https://padlet.com/lesliediannedean/x3vvqoor9z5w/wish/164082520 Description: RAFT is an acronym for; role, audience, format, topic. RAFT is used to enhance comprehension. Focus is based on the previous four dimensions of writing/reading. Students crate projects to present to specific audiences. 
Advantages: RAFT projects better comprehension skills as well as teach students how to write and talk to different types of audiences which is a vital skill in the real world. 
Disadvantages: Narrowing down the best type of project for thee content at hand may be difficult for some instructors. If students do not know how to properly adjust speaking and formality to different audiences projects have the ability to become inappropriate. Discussion on audience adjustment must not be taken lightly and engaged in students minds.]]> 2017-04-01 03:22:24 UTC https://padlet.com/lesliediannedean/x3vvqoor9z5w/wish/164082520 lesliediannedean https://padlet.com/lesliediannedean/x3vvqoor9z5w/wish/164082833 Description: Grid created by instructors to examine characteristics of content area concepts.
Advantages: Helps students better understand meanings of content specific vocabulary as well as create relationships among the words, creating connections. 
Disadvantage: This is a worksheet type of activity, which leads to low motivation from students in many cases. Creating the grid can be timely and this strategy has the ability to be ineffective in helping students examine characteristics. It works great with some students but not all.]]> 2017-04-01 03:39:10 UTC https://padlet.com/lesliediannedean/x3vvqoor9z5w/wish/164082833 lesliediannedean https://padlet.com/lesliediannedean/x3vvqoor9z5w/wish/164083028 Description: Illustrations on cards in which have pieces of the text on the back side are examined by students. 
Advantages: Story boards  help students better visualize story's and improve visualization for future reading. Also helps teach sequence when students are told to put story boards in order from the beginning of the story to the end. Story boards also have the ability to enhance learning of cause and effect.
Disadvantages: Students need to better learn to visualize mentally giving them this activity too much could make them reliant on the story boards to visualize. Creating many sorry boards may become costly when laminating, consider doing this only with afew  important story's in which may be difficult for children to visualize on own. For example, a historical book in which they have little background knowledge on. ]]> 2017-04-01 03:49:26 UTC https://padlet.com/lesliediannedean/x3vvqoor9z5w/wish/164083028 lesliediannedean https://padlet.com/lesliediannedean/x3vvqoor9z5w/wish/164083302 Description: Think-alouds are done while reading a passage. While reading students speak aloud their thoughts about the text. They respond to big ideas, make text to text, text to self and text to world connections. 
Advantages: This strategy increases comprehensive skills and gets young readers more engaged. It also teaches children how to properly direct and monitors their thoughts during while reading. 
Disadvantages: The thoughts the children are having may be completely unrelated to context. If this strategy is not modeled correctly and intensely then it has the ability to get out of hand between noise level and unrelated talking. ]]> 2017-04-01 04:02:17 UTC https://padlet.com/lesliediannedean/x3vvqoor9z5w/wish/164083302