Including literacy strategies in the classrooms, students can work on their comprehension skills. Students spend a lot of time listening to teachers and getting spoon fed information and not as much time writing and reading about the content that they are learning. These skills can help students make sense of the information that they are reading. The strategies can help students with:
- Making connections
- Visualizing
- Questioning
- Determine Importance
- Synthesizing
In inquiry-based learning, students will have to use each of those areas, so literacy strategies are a great way to help students develop them.
Some strategies include:
- Chapter tours
- Think-Write-Pair Share
- Prediction Pairs
- double-entry diaries
One strategy that I planned on using in student teaching is Chapter Tour. This is done before starting a chapter when students take a "tour" through the chapter to familiarize themselves with topics, terms, images. This would be extremely helpful when you go over difficult chapters with students and gives you an idea of what areas students will struggle with.
Manny, you give some great examples of literacy strategies and how they can help students engage at the higher levels of Bloom's taxonomy. I like how you plan on using chapter tours to help students navigate instructional materials. How do you plan to use the other strategies that you identified?
ReplyDeleteManny, I really enjoyed reading about the literacy strategies that you researched. I also liked how you identified at least one strategy that you will implement during student teaching!
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