Quick Link to Lots of Good Strategies

All of the talk about rigor and relevance and the strategies we can use to help our student attain reading goals reminds me of the secondary Alabama Reading Initiative training from our former reading coach, Alycia. For years AHS has been implementing best practices in literacy with before, during, and after reading strategies in all courses not just English Language Arts. When a person, or group of people, have been doing something for so long, it is easy to forget some of the really great lessons done "back in the day," so in case you need to be reminded of Alycia's ARI training or you are just looking for some effective reading strategies, here's a link to a list of strategies you can re-introduce to your lesson plans. If you can't decide where to begin, choose one strategy at random every week and find a way to incorporate it into your lesson plans. I really like how this site provides a brief overview, a numbered list of procedures, and even examples if you need them.

Feel free to visit again and comment on the strategies that you used. We all want to know what works!

http://www.learningpt.org/literacy/adolescent/strategies/prep.php