Literacy Strategies
Literacy Strategies, Page 3
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Gallery Walk
Description: a classroom-based active learning strategy where students are encouraged to build on their knowledge about a topic or content to promote higher-order thinking, interaction and cooperative learning.
Purpose: An example how I would use a gallery walk would be to place student work samples on the walls. The students venture through the room to observe each of their writings, find a few key details from the writings. and record on a checklist to be shared to the rest of the class.
Pattern Writing
Description: Enables students to model their writing on a presented literary work or syntactic style. It provides opportunities for extensions of personal writing.
Purpose: I would use pattern writing for decoding high-frequency words and for comprehension with a pattern book.
Running Record
Description: Allows you to record a child's reading behavior as he or she reads from the book.
Purpose: I would use a running record as an assessent tool to track the student's progress, and adjust the instruction to fit their needs.
Shared Reading
Description: The class read aloud an enlarged version of an engaging text that provides opportunities for your students to expand their reading competencies. A first reading will take place with the teacher primarily reading. After the first reading, students take part in multiple, subsequent readings to notice more about the text. They discuss the text, and you select teaching points based on their needs
Purpose: I would use this strategy to target comprehension and word recognition.
Modeled Writing
Description: An instructional strategy used to pre-teach and reinforce specific writing skills or concepts. Modeled writing can be used to illustrate a wide range of skills related to writing from grammar and conventions to crafting a piece for a specific purpose and audience
Purpose: I would use this strategy to explicitly teach students how to develop a sentence. Such as using indenting, use capitalization, adjectives, develop a topic sentence etc.
Shared Writing
Description: An instructional approach to teach writing to students by writing with them. The idea is to teach writing through writing. The process of writing is demonstrated by the teacher through a 'write aloud' process. The teacher acts as a scribe while the students contribute ideas
Purpose: I would use this strategy to help explain to the students the reasons why an author writes and provide an objective (such as developing a topic sentence). I would then have the students turn and talk with each other to develop ideas. Next, I would formumale the paragraph by asking the students to share their ideas and write what those are on a marker board.
Guided Writing
Description: is a small group approach, involving the teacher meeting with a group of students with similar writing needs. It can be thought of as a group conference or small group mini-lesson, undertaken strategically in response to an identified challenge faced by the selected students.
Purpose: I would use this strategy to model how to write in which the students are guided through a series of steps. An example is to have students use boards to start their sentences (teacher asking questions), and guide the students through guided examples.
Independent Writing
Description: students accomplish their own writing through the process of developing knowledge and skills that have been the focus for previous instruction.
Purpose: After students have went through a process of reading as a whole group, reading with a partner and performed guided practice- I would then have the student independently write so that I can guage if the student mastered the skill.
Guided Reading
Description: an instructional approach that involves a teacher working with a small group of students who demonstrate similar reading behaviors and can read similar levels of texts.
Purpose: I would use this strategy to work with a small group of students that may have similiar reading behaviors and levels. The objective is to guide reading through practice (i.e., students read along with the teacher)
Morphemic Analysis
Description: A strategy in which the meanings of words can be determined or inferred by examining their meaningful parts (i.e., prefixes, suffixes, roots, etc.)
Purpose: I would use this strategy to build letter identification by chunking multisyllabic words into syllables.