Strategies Flashcards
Language Experience Approach
promotes reading and writing through use of personal experiences and oral language
students relate their experiences and a teacher transcribes it
Multi-sensory phonics activities
“say, touch, spell”, say a word, ask students to place letter riles accordingly, sound out the word while they spell it
teaches reading and sound/letter recognition
Elkonin Boxes
helps students build phonological awareness by segmenting words into sounds or syllables
teaches students how to count the number of phonemes in the word (not always the number of letters)
help students better understand the alphabetic principle in decoding and spelling
CLOZE
students are required to fill in the blanks with the correct words in a sentence or passage
context and vocabulary development
helps with homophones
- Syntactic: I went ____ the store (two, too, to)
- Sematic: I ___ my research (did, do)
Semantic Map
helps with homonyms
present student with homonyms (ex: play) which can mean music, fun or theater. Have students come up with sentences for each
Story Map (Graphic Organizer)
addresses detail problems
helps make narrative texts concrete, helps students learn how to highlight key details and organize them
helps students learn how to use text to confirm or deny predictions
Venn Diagram
used for expository text (informational text)
compare and contrast ideas
students can complete individually