Advanced Literacy Practices

The computer generated report that shows student's ability in a variety of literacy skills, based off the quiz results.

Read 180 video - description of benefits and explanation of program

Blog entry that gives some background to the Read 180 program

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 article is about writing in early childhood education. The authors describe four stages of emergent writing and how they fall around the alphabetic principle. They give examples of four children's writing within these stages. There are suggestions for how preschool teachers can scaffold all stages.

writing early "emergent writing" scaffolding "stages of emergent writing" stages

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 article provides a seven step approach to spelling instruction that encourages word study based on the words students experience in their daily writing activities. It focuses on shifting spelling instruction from a focus on the number of words spelled correctly to developing an understanding of how words work.

I love this article. Spelling is so much more than memorizing and the author is right when she says that the words the student don't master on Friday are forgotten by Monday. That is why we work on blends, digraphs, onsets, and rimes. I also love the part about how spelling affects self-esteem and vocabulary as well. Awesome information!

This article really got me thinking about spelling and how it affects a students writing confidence. I like how it is an analyzing of words approach rather than just memorization. I think the chart fort student analyzing could be useful but I might change the wording to be more kid friendly.

Study of Development of Vocabulary

How does this seem like it would be useful? Why would someone read it? Is it applicable to your student at this time?

While this is a book, there is a lot of the book included in this preview. The book discusses strategies to help students create their own writer's notebook. 

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 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.

Gradual Release model--Regie Routman

This has a ton of really great and quick activities to help with students' handwriting. I really like the b/d makes a "bed" and using index fingers to help with spacing between words.

This article connects with our video strategy, because it talks about how struggling readers take leadership roles through discussion.  The article is a study about struggling readers and discussion.

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