Reading
These are visual reminders posted in the classroom with key concepts, rules, or tips for students to refer back to during lessons.
Anchor Charts
Writing strategy that focuses on encouraging students to share their writing with classmates and provide
constructive feedback. This helps students learn from each other and develop a critical eye for
their own work.
Peer Review:
A collaborative ELA learning strategy where students first think about a question
or topic, then pair up to discuss their thoughts, and finally share their ideas with the larger group.
Think-Pair-Share
This ELA strategy happens when a teacher reads books aloud to the class, pausing to ask
questions, make predictions, and discuss the text, modeling active
engagement with the material.
Interactive Read-Alouds
This is the primary point that is trying to be communicated by the text
Central Idea
This ELA strategy is being utilized when an ELA teacher divides a text into sections, assign each section to a group, and have groups become “experts” on their piece before teaching the rest of the class.
Jigsaw
This writing strategy focuses on integrating writing tasks into other subject areas to help
students see the relevance of writing and practice writing in various contexts.
Writing Across the Curriculum
This ELA strategy is a structured discussion where students engage in dialogue about a text or
topic, asking and answering questions to deepen understanding and critical thinking.
Socratic Seminar
This ELA strategy asks students to create poetry using words and phrases from existing texts, giving them a creative way to interpret and reflect on what they’ve read.
Found Poetry
Refers to the words that the author uses to support their purpose of writing
Word Choice
This ELA strategy that uses tools like story maps, Venn diagrams, and cause-and-effect charts to help students organize their thoughts and understand
the structure of texts.
Graphic Organizers
Collaborative writing between the teacher and students, often used in early
grades. The teacher writes a text with input from the students, modeling the writing process.
Interactive Writing:
This strategy is in place when small groups of students reading and discussing a book together. Each
student takes on a specific role (e.g., discussion director, summarizer) to facilitate rich
discussions and deepen comprehension.
Literature Circles
This strategy involves intensive analysis of a short text passage. Students read the text multiple times
to understand its deeper meanings, structure, and language use.
Close Reading
These are hints and extra information in a sentence or passage that help you understand the meaning of an unknown word used especially in inferencing
Context Clues
This ELA strategy is meant to bring the reading to life and happens when students read scripts or passages out loud with assigned roles, building reading fluency, expression, and comprehension.
Reader's Theater
This strategy is a structured approach where students have time for independent writing,
mini lessons on specific writing skills, and opportunities to share and receive feedback on their
writing.
Writing Workshops
This strategy is in play when a teacher sets up an inner circle of students discusses a topic while an outer circle observes and takes notes, rotating roles for different perspectives.
Fish Bowl
This strategy is in play when a teacher sets up an inner circle of students discusses a topic while an outer circle observes and takes notes, rotating roles for different perspectives.
Fish Bowl
This is the motivation for writing a text and their intent to Persuade, Inform, Entertain, Explain or Describe something to an audience
Author's Purpose
This ELA strategy focuses on teaching students specific strategies for understanding
texts, such as predicting, questioning, summarizing, and making inferences.
Reading Comprehension Strategies
This writing strategy emphasizes the steps of the writing process: prewriting, drafting, revising,
editing, and publishing. This approach helps students understand that writing is iterative and can
always be improved.
Process Writing
Organizing formal discussions on various topics to help students develop argumentation
skills, learn to support their ideas with evidence, and practice public speaking.
Debate
This ELA strategy focuses on teaching students specific strategies for understanding
texts, such as predicting, questioning, summarizing, and making inferences.
Reading Comprehension Strategies
This is the literary device to indicate the angle or perspective from which a story is told
Point of View