Writing Strategies

Pre-Writing Strategies:

Ø  Activating prior knowledge

Ø  Analyzing the required task

Ø  Brainstorming

Ø  Freewriting

Ø  Mulling over ideas

Ø  Engaging in ideas with teachers or peers

Ø  Generating a purpose

Ø  Considering a form

Ø  Identifying an audience and its traits

Ø  Consulting resources

Ø  Gathering information

Ø  Outlining

Ø  Webbing

Ø  Clustering

Ø  Using graphic organizers

Ø  Rehearsing

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Reading Strategies

Pre-Reading Strategies:

•  Relating prior knowledge and personal experience to new texts
•  Freewriting about an important idea/theme/essential question in the work
• Webbing an important idea/theme/word (semantic mapping)
•  Completing an anticipation guide
• Discussing a related work, theme, idea
• Completing and discussing questionnaires in cooperative groups
•  Filling in the first two columns of a K-W-L chart
•  Assessing what the student already knows about the topic
•  Listing predictions
• Setting purposes for reading (perhaps with a mini-lesson introducing a new concept, term, or strategy)
•  Analyzing the title and/or illustrations
• Reviewing the footnotes, headings, and/or other peripherals
• Creating story impressions

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