talk about ideas and strategies for supporting student learning. Please explain effective strategies to improve reading and writing instruction in content
areas. Explain three (3) strategies that you use or could use in your classroom. Provide specific examples.
Activities Supporting Beginning Reading Instruction
•Phonological awareness: Rhyme recognition, syllable segmenting, phoneme matching
•Phonics: letter recognition, letter/sound correspondence
•Fluency: Fast match of high recognition words
•Vocabulary: Memory word match
•Comprehension: Sentence structure and meaning
Effective Writing Instruction
•Mechanics of writing:
–Handwriting
–Self-regulation
–Attention
–Planning
–Organization
•Students learn to write when they:
–Are surrounded with examples and models
–Are given expectations
–Are allowed to make mistakes
–Given feedback
Provided with time to practice in realistic ways
Putting It All Together
•Collaboration provides a foundation for effective instruction
•Effective reading and writing instruction is well organized
•Effective teachers develop a toolbox of effective strategies
•Effective teachers are lifelong learners