50 Literacy Strategies : Step-by-Step

by Tompkins, Gail E.

• ISBN13: 9780138603700
• ISBN10: 0138603707
• Edition: Spiral
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1998-01-01
• Publisher: Prentice Hall

Summary

This conveniently organized resource book reflects the latest, most exciting ideas in literature focus units, reading/writing workshop, and thematic instruction. It provides step-by-step instructions for using fifty research based, classroom tested literacy strategies encompassing reading, writing, listening, speaking, and visualizing and for each, supportive material helps classroom teachers decide the when, why, and how of optimal use. A Categorical Index of strategies" appears on the inside front cover, serving as a handy reference for classroom use, making strategy selection easier and more reliable. New instructional strategies such as interactive writing, story retelling, and word sorts have been included. A supplemental book to assist elementary school teachers in literacy and language arts.

Table of Contents

1 "All About..." Books	1	(3)
2 Alphabet Books	4	(2)
3 Anecdotal Notes	6	(3)
4 Anticipation Guides	9	(3)
5 Author's Chair	12	(2)
6 Book Boxes	14	(2)
7 Book Talks	16	(2)
8 Building Words	18	(3)
9 Choral Reading	21	(2)
10 Class Collaborations	23	(2)
11 Cloze Procedure	25	(2)
12 Clusters, Webs, and Maps	27	(4)
13 Cubing	31	(3)
14 Data Charts	34	(3)
15 Directed Reading-Thinking Activity	37	(2)
16 Double-Entry Journals	39	(3)
17 Exclusion Brainstorming	42	(2)
18 Goldilocks Strategy	44	(2)
19 Grand Conversations	46	(1)
20 Guided Reading	47	(3)
21 Interactive Writing	50	(3)
22 K-W-L Charts	53	(4)
23 Language Experience Approach	57	(3)
24 Learning Logs	60	(3)
25 Literacy Centers	63	(4)
26 Literature Circles	67	(2)
27 Minilessons	69	(2)
28 Open-Mind Portraits	71	(2)
29 Plot Profiles	73	(3)
30 Prereading Plan	76	(2)
31 Quickwrites and Quickdraws	78	(3)
32 Quilts	81	(2)
33 Read-Arounds	83	(1)
34 Readers Theatre	84	(2)
35 Reading Logs	86	(2)
36 Reciprocal Questioning	88	(2)
37 Repeated Readings	90	(1)
38 Reports and Informational Books	91	(2)
39 Rubrics	93	(4)
40 Running Records	97	(2)
41 Shared Reading	99	(2)
42 Sketch-to-Stretch	101	(2)
43 SQ3R Study Strategy	103	(3)
44 Story Boards	106	(2)
45 Story Retelling	108	(4)
46 Tea Party	112	(2)
47 Venn Diagrams	114	(4)
48 Word Sorts	118	(2)
49 Word Walls	120	(3)
50 Writing Groups	123