Teaching deep processing skills revolutionizes the way students study and the degree to which they ultimately learn new concepts and skills. I know because that is what happened in my classroom with my students once I discovered the power of facilitating the right study strategies and totally abandoning the wrong ones! Most teachers spend […]
Content Area Writing – The RAFT Strategy
Content area writing is an essential element of embedded literacy across the curriculum, yet many non-English language arts teachers are skeptical, if not down right resistant to venturing into the land of paragraphs, punctuation, and writing rubrics. If you know a teacher who fits this bill, please share this information with him or her. In […]
The Gist Literacy Strategy: It’s So Amazing!
The Gist literacy strategy is an approach to text that teaches students to identify important details in text. Concise and flexible, Gist is easy to learn and apply, but don’t be deceived into thinking this is a shallow learning strategy…it is not! Most students are already familiar with the “5 Ws”—who, what, when, where, […]