teaching strategy
Word Work
My Pile, Your Pile
My Pile, Your Pile is an interactive word game that increases students’ Tier Two and Tier Three vocabularies.
July 19, 2014
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teaching strategy
Word Work
Meet New Vocabulary
Meet New Vocabulary uses a graphic organizer to help students acquire new vocabulary while reading. This strategy is most effective when teaching challenging, domain-specific words (Tier Three).
July 19, 2014
teaching strategy
Word Work
Word Wall
A word wall is an organized display of vocabulary words drawn from central texts students are reading.
July 19, 2014
teaching strategy
Responding to the Read-Aloud Text
Resistant Reading
During resistant reading, students analyze the dominant reading of a text and “resist” it by engaging in alternative readings. Resistant readings scrutinize the beliefs and attitudes that typically go unexamined in a text, drawing attention to the gaps, silences and contradictions.
July 19, 2014
teaching strategy
Responding to the Read-Aloud Text
Readers' Theater
During a readers’ theater, two or more students dramatize a text by reading expressively.
July 19, 2014
teaching strategy
Responding to the Read-Aloud Text
Author's Chair
Using either a Perspectives central text or their original work, children take on the role of “author,” reading the text aloud and facilitating a class discussion.
July 19, 2014
teaching strategy
Responding to the Read-Aloud Text
Cracking the Code
During Cracking the Code, students examine texts for bias related to race, gender, class, religion, age and sexual orientation, among other identity categories.
July 19, 2014
teaching strategy
Responding to the Read-Aloud Text
Making Connections During Read Aloud
Students make connections to read-aloud texts by relating the text to themselves (lived experiences), to other texts (read in any setting) and to the world (current and historical events)
July 19, 2014
teaching strategy
Responding to the Read-Aloud Text
Challenge the Text
Challenge the Text helps students ask and answer their own text-dependent questions by taking multiple perspectives and uncovering assumptions and biases within the text.
July 19, 2014
teaching strategy
Responding to the Read-Aloud Text
Shared Reading
During shared reading, learners observe experts reading with fluency and expression while following along or otherwise engaging with the text. This strategy should focus on a specific instructional element (or mini lesson) that improves targeted reading comprehension skills while promoting the joy of reading.
July 19, 2014