STRATEGY SHORTS
"Strategy Shorts" are brief strategies and tips for reading, writing, speaking, and vocabulary or short lessons, much as I posted on my Facebook Page, but together in a collection for teachers and librarians (and others who work with children and adolescents). I will add one every few days.
>Use the drop-down menu to access strategies for Poetry, Reading, Writing, and Vocabulary.

Strategy Shorts TABLE OF CONTENTS
READING STRATEGIES

1. K-W-L-H-R CHARTS
2. THE BOOK PASS
3. A BEFORE READING FREE WRITE OBJECTS ACTIVITY
4. BOOK TALK GUIDELINES
5. GENRE RECORD CHART to ENCOURAGE WIDE READING
6. TEACHING READING STRATEGIES & PLOT ELEMENTS THROUGH SHORT STORIES
7. STUDENT BOOK REVIEWS TO SHARE READING
8. A SAMPLE READING WORKSHOP FOCUS LESSON: Making Predictions
9. "TEACHING" THE WHOLE-CLASS NOVEL
10. TEACHING DISCUSSION STRATEGIES
11. NOTEPASSING AS A DISCUSSION STRATEGY
12. INTER-BOOK-CLUB MEETINGS
13. ANOTHER READING WORKSHOP FOCUS LESSON: Setting a Purpose
14. TEXT SETS FOR READING INFORMATIVE TEXTS
15. ENCOURAGING DIVERSE READING
16. READER'S THEATER: A Collaborative Reading-Writing-Speaking Activity
17. SUMMER READING
18. TEACHER-READ-ALOUDS
19. READING JOURNALS
20. AUTHOR-STUDY BOOK CLUBS

WRITING STRATEGIES

1. FREE WRITING for Fluency
2. INTRODUCING ARGUMENT WRITING
3. USING TRANSITION WORDS & PHRASES
4. WRITING A COLLABORATIVE STORY
5. THE CLASS "WE ARE" POEM
6. INFORMATIVE WRITING: PREWRITING STEPS & STRATEGIES
7. INFORMATIVE WRITING: DRAFT TO PUBLICATION & ASSESSMENT
8. WRITING THROUGH THE YEAR: UNITS OF STUDY
9. TEACHING VOICE IN WRITING
10. PEER REVIEW FOR REVISING A WRITING
11. A GETTING-TO-KNOW-YOU "WRITING" ACTIVITY
12. WRITING FOR AN AUTHENTIC AUDIENCE
13. BRAINSTORMING SETTINGS FOR NARRATIVE WRITINGS
14. A COLLABORATIVE  WRITING PROJECT THAT INCLUDES NARRATIVE, INFORMATIVE, AND PERSUASIVE WRITING
15. THE SIX TRAITS OF WRITING
16. THE BASIC ELEMENTS OF ARGUMENT WRITING, explained
17. AUDIENCE AWARENESS FOR ARGUMENTATION
18. FORMATTING INFORMATIVE WRITING: A-B-C Books
19. ASSESSING WRITING with Domain/Trait Rubrics
20. COLLABORATIVE INFORMATIONAL WRITING: The Novel/Text Newspaper
21. WRITING FABLES
22. SENTENCE FLUENCY—Building Better Sentences
23. LEADS—a Writing Workshop Focus Lesson

SPEAKING-DEBATE STRATEGIES

1. CHORAL READING TECHNIQUES
2. DEBATE INFORMATION
3. SPEECH GUIDELINES
4. LISTENER ANALYSIS CHART

POETRY STRATEGIES: Poetry Reading & Writing Lessons

1. TEACHING POETIC FORMS THROUGH VERSE NOVELS
2. WRITING POETRY TO LEARN CONTENT
3. CREATING HAIKU CALENDARS
4. TEACHING ODES
5. A FREE-VERSE POETRY LESSON
6. LIMERICKS TO TEACH RHYME SCHEME and RHYTHM
7. POETRY AS MENTOR TEXTS FOR WRITING
8. LIST POETRY
9. I AM POETRY FOR BUILDING CLASSROOM COMMUNITY
10. TEACHING END RHYME AND INTERNAL RHYME
11. I AM POETRY TO ANALYZE CHARACTERS & INCREASE COMPREHENSION
12. POETRY LESSONS FOR READING & WRITING A MEMOIR OF TIME
13. POETRY IN TWO VOICES TO COMPARE & CONTRAST
14. USING FOUND POETRY TO DETERMINE IMPORTANT DETAILS & SYNTHESIZE READING

VOCABULARY STRATEGIES

1. TEACHING ROOTS & AFFIXES
2. CREATING LOGOS TO LEARN WORDS
3. VOCABULARY FOR STANDARDIZED TESTS
4. VOCABULARY PERSONIFICATION
5. PLAYING WORD GAMES
6. WORD WALLS
7. REVIEWING VOCABULARY THROUGH WRITING RAPS & RHYMES
8. CREATING ADS TO SYNTHESIZE WORD LEARNING
9. CREATING LIMERICKS TO REVIEW VOCABULARY
10. CHOOSING WHICH WORDS TO TEACH

RESEARCH & PROJECT STRATEGIES

1. SCAFFOLDING TEACHING CITATIONS
2. RESEARCH THAT IS PURPOSEFUL
3. AN INTERACTIVE COLLABORATIVE INTERDISCIPLINARY ACTION-RESEARCH PROJECT
4. TEACHING ABOUT URLS
5. ELEMENTS OF EFFECTIVE & COLLABORATIVE PROJECTS
6. HOLOCAUST RESEARCH & BOOK-WRITING PROJECT
7. THE CINDERELLA CULTURAL DIVERSITY PROJECT
8. RESEARCHING & WRITING A (SCHOOL) COMMUNITY BOOK
9. WRITING A COLLABORATIVE STORY
10. INTERDISCIPLINARY FOLKTALE PROJECTS
11. WAYS TO MAKE RESEARCH MATTER
12. COLLABORATIVE INFORMATIONAL WRITING: The Novel/Text Newspaper Project
13. CREATING ORIGINAL PICTURE BOOKS FROM RESEARCH

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