Week 11 Reading and Writing in Content Areas

Learning Task and Assignment#2

1. Read the article, Seven Literacy Strategies that Work.
2. Choose one from the seven strategies mentioned in the article.
3. Explain how this strategy can be employed in the classroom.
4. Find a scholarly article to support your rationale. Share a lesson plan (research one online) that use this particular strategy to enhance students' learning in reading.

Read-Alouds

Read-Alouds can be fit into any classroom at anytime and it’s FREE! Some benefits from read-alouds/shared readings is that it can motivate students to read more and improve their reading and writing vocabularies. Teachers can fit read-alouds in any lesson at any grade level. Teachers can begin the lesson with this strategy to get their students motivated and excited to learn. Read-alouds/shared reading builds on students understanding and fluency.

Take a look at this article!

http://www.educationworld.com/a_curr/profdev/profdev083.shtml

Here is an example of a read-aloud lesson
 http://www.readwritethink.org/classroom-resources/lesson-plans/catching-reading-through-interactive-241.html