LITERACY
The craft of teaching literacy has become increasingly complex in our ever-changing world of diverse students requiring specialized instruction to meet their individual needs. Literacy Instruction benefits teachers by providing them with a system of structured methods and techniques for developing their students’ abilities to read and write on grade level, to work independently, and by applying higher order thinking skills, to extend their knowledge of learning to all content areas.
Discussion Strategies
Pulling teeth to get students to talk?, Questioning strategies, Group strategies
Problem / Project-based learning
Making real life connections, Engaging students in real world problems, Students as stakeholders
The Writing Process
Process vs. product model, Recursive nature of writing process, Writing to learn
1. Integrating effective teaching strategies and SEL into any content area
2. Writing as a strategy for learning
3. Writing: (as a recursive) process v product
4. Balanced Literacy: Reading
5. Workshops : reading, writing
6. Roundtable Discussions: any topic
7. Interdisciplinary unit planning
8. Problem based learning: planning a problem-based unit of study
9. Shared inquiry discussion: literature
10. Trade books vs. text books for Literacy and Social Studies
11. Teaching content areas through literacy: elementary
12. Curriculum development