Effective writing instruction gives students frequent opportunities to write, accompanied with feedback and opportunities to edit and revise, along with guidance in how to do so. Examples of writing to learn strategies that simultaneously increase content understanding and improve reading and writing skills include paired reading, quick writes, peer conferencing, creation of Reader’s Theatre scripts, use of Jigsaw groups to discuss different short readings on the same topic, use of a Readers’ Workshop approach, use of a Writers’ Workshop approach, rereading assignments for a different purpose, rewriting text from other points of view, use of literature circles, dialogic journals, use of learning logs, and connecting text with other media using …show more content…
Talk and comprehension go together and when students collaborate with each other about text –based discussions it not only deepens their comprehension but also helps them develop their social skills. Developing conversations skills and learning to talk to other students that may be outside their social circle develops important social skills. As students engage with increasingly complex texts, the need to talk about what they are learning increases. Text-based collaboration means that when students work in small groups, they should not simply discuss a topic, but interact with each other around a text. Teachers can scaffold the students’ interactions and monitor student comprehension through these types of lesson. By assigning a test to read as a small group and then discuss questions or ideas given to the group the students are working on comprehension skills and social skills at the same …show more content…
This can be taught through reading stories with values as the central theme of the story. A story is told with a lesson embedded in it. Typically, the stories show how to behave or how not to obey in situations where a decision has to be made. Often in these stories right behaviors actions are rewarded and, of course, wrong behaviors bring undesirable consequences. Stories have been used through fables and parables for years to teach right from wrong. This approach is most effective when the reader is provoked to think by the story and then through discussion and thought discovers the lesson embedded in the story. Stories offer opportunity for discussion and thinking, for questions, for focusing on alternatives, and for comparison both with other stories and with personal experiences. Students can learn through dramatizing experiences with stories, through looking at character motivation, through examining alternative outcomes and beginnings, and through looking at the author's viewpoint, for