Literacy+Strategies

= Literacy Strategies =



===These students are really enjoying reading together. When children are able to comprehend what they are reading this opens a new door for them. Learning a few comprehension strategies will go a long way in helping your child develop deeper comprehension. This page will divide literacy strategies into several different categories. These are strategies your child can use at home or at school while reading. Many of these strategies your child may have been taught at some point in their classroom.===

=Comprehension Strategies= =Fluency Strategies (Adapted from __Fluency Strategies & Instruction__ byJerry L. Johns= =& Roberta L. Berglund, 2006)= =**Other Related Activities:**=
 * **Make connections** between what you already know about a topic and what you are reading about.
 * **Ask questions** about what you are reading. Does it make sense? Are you surprised by what you are reading?
 * **Monitor your comprehension.** Check in with yourself after you have read a page. Did you understand what you read?
 * **Visualize** what you are reading. Make a movie in your mind of what you are reading.
 * **Use post-it notes** to mark important parts of the book.
 * **Use a graphic organizer** like a graph, chart or web to organize new information.
 * **Talk** with a friend or your parent about what you read.
 * **Summarize** what you just read in a few sentences.
 * **Echo Reading:** An adult models fluent reading for a student and requests student to reread or echo the words that were just read. Students are often able to mimic the tone and mood used by the adult and often gain confidence in their own reading. (Allington, 2001; Gillet, Temple & Crawford, 2004)
 * **Choral Reading:** Students read a text in unison (Gillet, Temple & Crawford, 2004) When students practice together they develop the skill of collaboration.
 * **Antiphonal Reading:** This is an adaptation of choral reading. Using the strategy of Antiphonal Reading children are often divided into groups. (Miccinati, 1985; Worthy & Broaddus, 2001/2002). Sometimes children read the parts in unison and sometimes at alternate times. This method is often used with practicing poetry.
 * **Paired Reading:** Begin by reading the book together. If the student makes a mistake, the adult says the word correctly and ask the student to repeat it correctly. The pair continues to read together.
 * **Readers Theater**: This strategy is a viable method for oral reading fluency (Keehn, 2003). It is an authentic way to develop fluency. Students read from scripts without costumes or other props. These repeated readings are an enjoyable method for repeated readings.
 * Rereading children's poetry
 * Read aloud to a younger sibling
 * Practicing Nursery Rhymes
 * Learning tongue twisters
 * record reading on an ipod, computer or tape recorder