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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Media Technology Objectives

Each year, students will demonstrate their ability to meet at least three of the objectives listed below.

1. Students will be able to respond in discussions and in writing to a news report in the electronic or print media.
2. Students will be able to cite evidence of personal opinion or propaganda in articles which are presented as factual.
3. Students will be able to view and write a critical review of a television show.

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Speaking and Listening Objectives

Throughout their high school years, students will improve their ability to achieve all of the following objectives with increasing ease and sophistication.  In meeting the objectives listed below, students will use language appropriate for the classroom.

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Reading Objectives

Students will engage in daily, meaningful reading tasks in English class and/or at home.  The tasks will be based upon the following objectives:

1.   Students will be able to use strategies before, during, and after reading to aid in the construction and enhancement of meaning

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