Essential Literacy Strategy

So what is an Essential Literacy Strategy?  It is the specific strategy for comprehending or composing text that you will teach across your learning segment lessons. You need to clearly tie this to your segment's central focus and stem from that big, overarching idea for student learning in literacy.

Students should be able to approach reading or writing and select deliberately a strategy that enables them to comprehend or compose text. When students are able to select and use strategies automatically, they have achieved independence in using the strategy to accomplish reading and writing goals.

Essential Literacy Strategy Examples: 

   summarizing or retelling, comparing and contrasting firsthand and secondhand accounts of the same event, using evidence to predict, interpreting a character’s feelings, or drawing conclusions from informational text.

 

Making connections, visualizing, inferring, questioning, determining importance,
synthesizing, summarizing or retelling, comparing and contrasting firsthand and secondhand accounts of the same event, using evidence to predict, interpreting a character’s feelings, or drawing conclusions from informational text, organizing ideas before writing, note-taking from informational text to support drafting a topic, using graphic organizers to organize writing, using a rubric to revise a draft, or using quotes as evidence to support an argument

Reading comprehension, Analyzing characters or arguments, Analyzing text structures, Summarizing plot or main ideas, Comparing characters or versions of stories, Comparing points of view, Arguing/persuading using textual evidence, Inferring meaning using textual evidence, Describing a process or a topic, Sequencing events, Supporting predictions using textual evidence, Interpreting a character’s actions or feelings, Drawing evidence, Retelling a story, Identifying story elements, character traits, or themes, Identifying characteristics of informational texts 

Writing composition, Brainstorming (or gathering and organizing information for writing), Note taking from informational texts in order to support a writing topic, Using graphic organizers for prewriting, Revising a draft, Using a rubric to revise, Using a writing checklist to edit

Reading Rockets has a great article and links for strategies here:  https://www.readingrockets.org/strategies and the picture is a great rendering of what is needed by students from TeachThought. 

summarizing or retelling, comparing and contrasting firsthand and secondhand accounts of the same event, using evidence to predict, interpreting a character’s feelings, or drawing conclusions from informational text.summarizing or retelling, comparing and contrasting firsthand and secondhand accounts of the same event, using evidence to predict, interpreting a character’s feelings, or drawing conclusions from informational text.