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Here is the matrix for the reading program Peer-Assisted Learning Strategies.

Another great website to learn about this program and give you a good insight of how it works and why people use it. Has great question and answer document. It has a lot of common questions and their answers to them for quick reading. Good website to check out!

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 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 article is a research and data collection project about LLI. You will learn about how this program has worked in the past and why.

This information is from the What Works Clearing House and this site has an overview of PALS with program information about the scope of use and teaching, research, effectiveness and references associated with the program. 

This is a great website that gives you a lot of knowledge about Reading Recovery Program. It talks about the background knowledge of it, who it is for, how it helps and even the cost. Great website to learn about this program.

An article discussing the results of a study investigating the effectiveness of combining technology and traditional vocabulary strategies in L2 vocabulary acquisition. Overall results point towards technology (specifically Mywordtools) integration being beneficial in L2 vocabulary learning

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 article focuses on the different levels of vocabulary and what they mean. Also, the article talks about what effective vocabulary instruction is and how it should be used. It gives many different ideas for strategies that could be used to help teach vocabulary to students such as graphic organizers, academic vocabulary journals and quick writes. The article gives examples for both elementary and secondary students.

You might include the title to pique other students' interests...hard to make a decision about it if the link is all we see. Your description is very helpful.

There are an estimated 88,500 word families in printed school English. So how do we, as literacy teachers, determine the most valuable, appropriate vocabulary for each student?

Seems impossible, doesn't it? This is often why folks who argue for a holistic or sociocultural approach to teaching and learning start with what the child knows and build from there.

This article shares the idea of having students choose the words they would like to learn as a strategy to teach vocabulary. The students put their chosen words in a box to review as a class.

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.

Advanced Children's Literature Course from UNI. Author Studies assignment posts on this blog.

are these units? what do they include?

This blog has posts about authors of multicultural themed books. There is a description of the author, background, biographical and writing style information as well as a list of their books.

Do you think discussion or developing student talk would be good tags for this article?

This article explores the use of iPads in teaching literacy, and the importance of aligning the technology to the best teaching practices and the curriculum.