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An overview of strategies for integrating various technological mediums into the classrooms and educators' perceptions on strategies and technology in general.

This article shows how a school started to include seven literacy strategies to help them improve their academic achievement. The seven strategies include read-alouds, KWL charts, graphic organizers, vocabulary instruction, writing to learn, structured note taking, and reciprocal teaching. The article gives a brief example on how they defined the strategies and examples of the strategies in a classroom.

This study helped students learn to spell words that they had often misspelled by putting the words that sound the same but are spelled similarly into the same wordlist. They also looked at student writing and worked together in small groups.

Interesting approach to grouping 2nd graders. When targeting both writing and reading instruction, spelling achievement lags far behind reading achievement. Not as important in K-1 groups. Article provided insight on strategy choices I may choose for my student.

This article shares a strategy that teachers in a preschool, kindergarten or first grade classroom can use. The strategy involves the use of the children's drawing and writing a message on the drawing. There are components such as self-talk and materials like highlighters used to draw lines to create ideas.

emergent writing "emergent writing" "zone of proximal development" "sentences" "word spacing"

This is an article on a literature review about Reading Recovery and how the theories behind the program can inform classroom instruction.

This is an introduction to using E-books in the elementary classroom

Implementations for classroom teachers with students with ASD

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.

This study focuses on word identification in 3-4 grade classrooms

This article shows how a teacher uses word study in their classroom. It includes what they do each day of the week regarding word study and different games you can have your students play to help them with words.

Journal Article Review

Journal Article Review

could you be more specific with your tags? Struggling with what? How is this article helpful for others?

This resource also comes from Hienemann, the publishers of the LLI system. However, this link leads to the research base for LLI, which outlines lesson plan designs and rates of success of LLI in classrooms.

This resource further outlines LLI, its characteristics, and provides sample research about its implementation in classrooms.