Literacy Strategies

Focus Statement: The purpose of this unit is to explore the strategies for literacy that you might use for instruction in your discipline. A way to design a lesson is to organize it by activities that you would do before your students read or view text, activities that would happen while they were working with text, and activities that take place after reading or viewing the text. I want you to find strategies for each of these parts of a reading lesson. These Strategies should have something to do with students reading or viewing "instructional text."

Reading

Assignment

 

Many of the sites for strategies will be
the same as those for materials. The focus
of what you are looking for is different:
look for teaching strategies that you can use
to help students think about what they are
reading or viewing. For examples, see
see the links in the bottom section below.

Browse through the following resources:

Trathen's Reading Resources
See list of resources for teachers and
before, during, after reading strategies and
vocabulary, questions, and other categories.
There is an entire unit (5th grade language
arts with social studies integration) focused
on pirates that models all phases of the
reading instruction: before, during, after.
Many of these strategies can be adapted
to other instructional settings--modifications
will be necessary. These are a good set to
look at to get a flavor of how you would
set this up, especially in a language arts or
social studies class.

CAROL Links to Content Area Resources

Reading Comprehension Strategies

Study Guides and Strategies

Google Search for your content area and
reading strategies (or something similar)

Try looking at Doug Buehl's
Reading Room columns for
instructional ideas involving
content area reading. Look also
at classroom resources from WEAC

Look at Read Write Think for literacy
instruction. It has a searchable index.

Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators

Educators Reference Desk

Smithsonian Education is the central
education Web site of the Smithsonian
Institute. The Smithsonian Institution is
making curriculum planning and teaching
easier for teachers across the nation by
offering over 1,200 free educational
resources online. Smithsonian Education
now includes a feature that aligns those
resources to standards of learning in every
state. Teachers can enter the name of their
state into the search engine and find lesson
plans, virtual exhibitions, photographs and
artwork, and databases of research
information that apply to their curriculum.

Internet 4 Classrooms (i4c)

Graphic Organizers
A collection of various graphic organizers.

Global Classroom

SchoolsMovingUp a WestEd Initiative


Questioning Strategies & Resources

Asking good questions is one of the most important
instructional activities that teachers will do. It becomes
extremely important for teachers to learn how to
think about asking the right kinds of questions--ones
that engage students in critical and thoughful thinking.
The resources below are designed to help teachers
learn to ask better questions and engage students
in thoughful thinking and discussion. Please examine
these resources.

Blooms Question Taxonomy

Thinking Skills Framework

Marzano Question Taxonomy

Marzano Fact Sheet

Marzano Essential Nine Instructional Techniques

McREL Organization

Patty Blanton (teacher) Questioning Tips

Socratic Seminars

Paideia

Art Criticism Example

Three Cups of Tea Example

 

Vocabulary Resources


Teaching Strategies Resources


Don't forget to google a topic.
Try: teaching strategies (put in a descriptor)

 

 

Browse these resources to get an idea of the instructional strategies that are available on the Internet.

 

 


Strategies Overview Worksheet

 

Examples of Reading Strategies applied
to lessons

Pre-reading instruction occurs before
students read the text; the goal is to
activate background knowledge
and set a purpose for reading.

During-reading instruction occurs
as students read the text.
Examples include responding to
questions, vocabulary instruction,
discussion of segments, and responding
to study guides, all done as students read.

Post-reading instruction occurs after
reading the text. The purpose is to
consolidate text information, to
elaborate on the concepts,
and to evaluate student learning.

Remember to google:

  • before reading strategies
  • during reading strategies
  • after reading strategies

You can add your content area
to narrow the search


Reading Strategies (Check This Out)

Reading Strategies: guiding students interaction
with text

Reading Quest: examples of reading strategies
for social studies

Reading Strategies for Mathematics:
PowerPoint Presentation

 

Assignment Check Sheet

 


After browsing these sites, use the Strategies Overview Worksheet to help you review 3 instructional activities that you find. You may use this document to help you write reviews for 3 instructional strategies that you would use in your teaching. These strategies must involve reading, writing, or viewing text in order to learn content. These type of strategies can be used as prereading (before), during reading, or postreading (after). You are to to post your 3 reviews on your blog.

 

 

Post comments to other students' blogs. Minimum 1 response to each assigned blog post (3) and responses to other bloggers in class (minimum 2).
So a total of 5 comments for this unit.

 

 

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updated 5/2/10