Advanced Literacy Practices

This article discusses a strategy that encourages honest discussion, critical thinking, concept formation, and the use of problem-solving strategy. It also allows the children to make predictions, revising their predictions through reading, and using evidence from the readings to defend their conclusions.

I liked the different strategies that the authors wrote about on page 103. Those strategies seem to be more student-led, which could mean that students are exploring and solving problems with spelling. However, I wonder how the strategies will work if student's aren't used to self-monitoring spelling individually (asking themselves, does it look right, sound right, and make sense)?

Words Their Way (WTW) to teach phonemic awareness, spelling patterns, and morphology to adolescent students.

I really liked this Lauren, thanks for posting! I used WTW at Lincoln, and it worked well. I was wondering how to implement it with older students, and here are some answers!

"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.

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 is about word study and different techniques that a teacher can use with a student who need help in this particular area.

This article gave great examples of sorting the different types of words into categories. For example, when two words that sound the same have different meanings (their and there). It also expresses different spelling patterns that the children will encounter. Words that end in "or," "er," and "ar." This article explains that studying words of more than one syllable offers opportunities to build awareness of how language is used in narrative writing.

Journal article about assessment NOT being "all about grading." What does an 'F' actually teach a student?

Research study on development of emergent writing skills in preschoolers

How to build children's vocabulary

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

Reading Strategies

What strategies? What kind? For what purpose? could you add a few more descriptors here in case others might use this or modify some of the ideas for various readers?

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.

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.

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 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.

QAR video presentation strategy

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.

Article presenting a framework for individualizing and scaffolding preschool writing

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.

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

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.

building students' vocabulary

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