Fifty Literacy Strategies: Step By Step

Fifty Literacy Strategies: Step By Step, 1/e

Gail E. Tompkins, California State University, Fresno

Published December, 1997 by Prentice Hall Career & Technology

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Summary

One of today's leading literacy and language arts authors provides future and current teachers with practical, hands-on approaches for teaching literacy in this text that contains 50 research-based and field tested strategies. It includes strategies for reading, writing, listening, speaking, and visualizing. Each strategy includes general information (defining terms, purpose of the strategy, application, and research citations); a list of steps for implementing the strategy; and a concluding paragraph that gives ideas for application and additional examples.

Features

Each strategy description includes three recommendations on how it is best used:
with individuals, small groups, or entire classes.
appropriate grade levels.
within a literature unit, a reading/writing workshop, or a thematic/interdisciplinary study.
Covers strategies in alphabetical order for easy access.
Contains categories that fit the structure of the author's other books on reading, writing, and language arts so there is consistency when using this book with one of her other books.
Strategies are supported by figures or photos.
Figures are in the form of blackline master to duplicate for classroom use.

Table of Contents

1. “All About _____” Books.
2. Alphabet Books.
3. Anecdotal Notes.
4. Anticipation Guides.
5. Author's Chair.
6. Book Boxes.
7. Book Talks.
8. Building Words.
9. Choral Reading.
10. Class Collaborations.
11. Cloze Procedure.
12. Clusters.
13. Cubing.
14. Data Charts.
15. Directed Reading-Thinking Activity.
16. Double-Entry Journals.
17. Exclusion Brainstorming.
18. Goldilocks Strategy.
19. Grand Conversations.
20. Guided Readings.
21. Interactive Writing.
22. K-W-L Charts.
23. Language Experience Approach.
24. Learning Logs.
25. Literacy Centers.
26. Literature Circles.
27. Minilessons.
28. Open-Mind Portraits.
29. Plot Profiles.
30. Prereading Plan.
31. Quickwrites and Quickdraws.
32. Quilts.
33. Read-Arounds.
34. Readers Theatre.
35. Reading Logs.
36. Reciprocal Questioning.
37. Repeated Readings.
38. Reports and Informational Books.
39. Rubrics.
40. Running Records.
41. Shared Reading.
42. Sketch to Stretch.
43. SQ3R Study Strategy.
44. Story Boards.
45. Story Retellings.
46. Tea Party.
47. Venn Diagram.
48. Word Sorts.
49. Word Walls.
50. Writing Groups.