Advanced Literacy Practices

Read 180 video - description of benefits and explanation of program

Blog entry that gives some background to the Read 180 program

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. 

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.

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 goes with our video we created over Question Answer Relationships

How to build children's vocabulary

When I click here, it doesn't connect. Try again if you get a chance.

Word Study Strategy

And...I wonder what the benefit is or who it applies to or why we might use it...so many questions. Perhaps you could add a few bullet points or highlights to help others see if it is useful for their context.

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.

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?

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.