Instructional Strategies
Explicit strategy instruction is at the core of good comprehension instruction. "Before" strategies activate students' prior knowledge and set a purpose. "During" strategies help students make connections, monitor their understanding, generate questions, and stay focused. "After" strategies provide students an opportunity to summarize, question, reflect, discuss, and respond.
Teachers should help students to understand why a strategy is useful, how it is used, and when it is appropriate. Teacher demonstration and modeling are critical factors for success, and student discussion following strategy instruction is also helpful. Depending on how you incorporate/utilize these strategies depends greatly on what skill you are addressing – many of them can be adapted to meet all of the standards.
Shoot me an email @ [email protected] to discuss some of the instructional strategies that might work for your students.
Teachers should help students to understand why a strategy is useful, how it is used, and when it is appropriate. Teacher demonstration and modeling are critical factors for success, and student discussion following strategy instruction is also helpful. Depending on how you incorporate/utilize these strategies depends greatly on what skill you are addressing – many of them can be adapted to meet all of the standards.
Shoot me an email @ [email protected] to discuss some of the instructional strategies that might work for your students.