EDRG 3344, T/R - Blog #2

When teaching we should integrate instruction and incorporate opportunities for our students to use the six language arts (listening, talking, reading, writing, viewing, and visual representation) on a daily basis. The six language arts can be incorporated into daily learning by using the pre-lesson, during lesson, and after lesson strategy.
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Some examples of this strategy include taking students to the school library, taking a book walk, sharing a book box (objects or pictures of items mentioned in the story), word wall additions from the story, asking questions, have students make predictions, students' retelling story with puppets or props, sequencing, and creating individual books using words from the story. Many of these teaching ideas may be used in more than one area of this strategy. Sharing a book box is an example of a technique that can be used as a pre - and after reading activity. Sharing a book box as a prereading activity would introduce new and high frequency words from the story while using that same book box as an after reading activity to teach sequencing or retelling of the story by the student.
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These strategies help because they provide multiple opportunities and entry points for student understanding and emergence into reading and writing. Not every strategy will work for every student so using many strategies throughout each lesson increases your chances of supporting all of your students as they begin learning to read and write.