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"How to Act Out a Story" Strategies dealing with the benefits of action out a story

I like this idea of acting out the story. It would be fun for students while also getting them to think about details from the story. I think it would be a great activity to work on comprehension.

I really like this idea! I think it would be a good way to get kids moving around and excited about reading! Also a good alternative to assessing comprehension.

This is an article about a study that was done with English Language learners and the relationship between their reading comprehension and reading fluency.

Article for Advanced Literacy Practices on how prior knowledge impacts comprehension 

This article presents a strategy to use with upper elementary or middle school students to help them use the context of a word to find out the meaning. The authors combined two strategies of using context clues and semantic gradients to help students make the vocabulary-to-comprehension connection explicit.

This website has metacognitive strategies that enhances reading comprehension and vocabulary with students in the 3rd grade. This website also talks about the importance and instruction of metacognitive strategies.

QAR video presentation strategy

Review for Thursday's ALP class.

smart to include this, relevant since we are on site!

This is a strategy to improve comprehension and describe parts of a story through writing.

building students' vocabulary

How old are the kids? What kinds of ideas are suggested?

Middle School Literacy Guide. This guide introduces and explains the following: Workshops in reading and writing. Writer's Notebook. Writing and publishing process. A nice overall glimpse of strategies.

Literacy strategies that worked in a troubled high school in CA. Read-alouds, K-W-L charts, Graphic Organizers, Vocab Instruction, Writing to Learn, Structured Note-Taking and Reciprocal Teaching.

These strategies are common across grades, it is nice to see the specific application to a group of students and I hope folks who have a different concentration will look this over as well.

This article tells about 10 free internet tools that can be used to build vocabulary skills. These tools can be used in a variety of classrooms for any grade level.

I absolutely love the "combine vocabulary learning and social service" part of this article. The website, freerice.com, is an amazing way to motivate the student to practice their vocabulary. Every time the user gets a vocabulary definition correct the website donates 10 grains of rice through the United Nations World Food Programme! I remember using this years ago when someone posted it to a social media site, and I stayed on it until I'd gotten 600 pieces of rice donated. I definitely want to do this as a fun activity with my student. Thanks for posting this!

Excellent choice. Hoping folks use these tips and try them out when they are applicable.

We used this for our literacy strategy for our presentation. It is a prewriting organizational strategy. 

Review for Thursday's ALP class (11/14/13)

good choice, thanks for posting this