Literacy+Strategies

=Welcome to the literacy strategies page! =

This page was created as a space where teachers can obtain and share strategies for the development of literacy in the classroom. Many of these strategies can also be applied to the other content areas, so be sure to share them with your math, science, history, etc. colleagues!

=﻿Think, Pair, Share= Think, Pair, Share is a discussion strategy in which students think individually and share with classmates how to answer a question, solve a problem, or undertake a learning task.

=﻿The Final Word= The Final word is an organizational tool for group discussion =SQP2RS: Survey Question Predict Read Respond Summarize = =﻿GIST: Generating Interaction Between Schemata and Text= This strategy fosters comprehension by having students condense or summarize longer texts, allowing students to put concepts into their own words. GIST works especially well with expository and content-area texts. =Think Aloud= Think-alouds" (Davey, 1983) help students understand the kind of thinking required by a specific task. The teacher models her thinking process by verbalizing her thoughts as she reads, processes information, or performs some learning task. =﻿Personal Vocabulary Journals= =Vocabulary Self Selection Strategy=

=﻿Graphic Organizers=

Here are some graphic organizers that students can use while reading