Literacy Strategies – Cranbourne Secondary College PEDAGOGY TOOLBOX

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Literacy Strategies To Engage Students With Content In Any Subject.

22 Aug 202023 Aug 2020

Formative Assessment…

Exit Tickets

15 Jul 202015 Jul 2020

Information Sourced From: Reading Rockets Exit slips are written student responses to questions teachers pose at the end of a class or lesson. These quick, informal assessments enable teachers to…

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Hot Potato

This strategy will help students to: demonstrate their prior knowledge about a topic This strategy will help teachers to: Formatively assess student readiness to learn a particular skill Implementation:…

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Silent Discussions (Big Paper)

Description: This discussion strategy uses writing and silence as tools to help students explore a topic in depth. In a Big Paper discussion, students write out their responses to a…

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Readers’ Theatre

Description: In an activity based on the Readers’ Theatre strategy, groups of students are assigned a text excerpt to present to their peers. As opposed to presenting skits of the…

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Town Hall

Description: This teaching strategy mimics the process of a town hall meeting, where community members take the floor to share their perspective on a topic of concern. Using this format,…

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PCQ (Pros, Cons, Questions)

26 Dec 201917 Feb 2020

This strategy will help students to: PCQ is a basic tool used by the critical thinker to analyse any situation before deciding whether or not to support it. The PCQ…

Formative Assessment…

Literacy Think Aloud

This strategy will help students to: Uncover their own thinking processes as they learn and understand a concept. Implementation: As a student reads a text or performs a task ask…

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Top Three List

This strategy will help students to: Consolidate their understanding of current content. Implementation: Mid way through or at the end of the lesson ask students to make a list that…

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Save the Last Word for Me!

This strategy will help students to: Prepare to meaningfully participate in collaborative discussions Implementation: Choose two passages of text that do not require extensive introductions before they are read aloud.…