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

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

SPEAKING-DEBATE STRATEGIES

1. CHORAL READING TECHNIQUES
2. DEBATE INFORMATION

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

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

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

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