Strategies

= Instructional Strategies =

=What to do with a text...=
 * Reading activities**
 * 1) Identifying sounds for pictures from stories ( cat,car,water,telephone, door bill)
 * 2) Identifying the short and long sounds( in Arabic) through drumming ( use drums or tabbing on tables!)
 * 3) Reading class items when the student needs that particular item.
 * 4) having the student names where they set it recognize it
 * 5) Every student to chose a word every week and stick it on his place to practice reading it
 * 6) Rhyming words
 * 7) Connecting sounds together to make a word
 * 8) Flash cards
 * 9) Acting stories, every student to read a line
 * 10) Getting magazines from home to the class and read a short story to a friend
 * 11) Reading a joke with the class to share the laughters
 * 12) Reading a card that had been designed for a sick friend when is back to class.


 * Writing Activities:**
 * 1) Tracing
 * 2) Completing the missing part of a picture
 * 3) Drawing
 * 4) Choosing a sound and collect 3 words from different books
 * 5) Writing a comment for a picture
 * 6) Self correcting
 * 7) Making lists
 * 8) Journals
 * 9) Summarization
 * 10) Reflecting on a student's learning
 * 11) Have a 10 minutes roughly writing every day
 * 12) Reports
 * 13) Movie critics
 * 14) Book critics
 * 15) Text critics
 * 16) Introduce students for the 6 +1 Traits of writing in a very early stage.

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** The Communicative Approach [[file:TARA Communicative.ppt]]**
Hanada's presentation from the 2008 TARA conference.

Guidelines to Enhance Oral Language
1. Model appropriate language structure 2. Response to children's language 3. Use language in playful ways 4. Allow plenty of time for meaningful conversation 5. Encourage friendship building 6. Hear, say, and see language simultaneously

1. Use children's names as an introduction to writing 2. Place writing materials in every center 3. Model writing every day for different purposes 4. Have children draw and write in journals every day 5. Teach letter-sound association



Guidelines to Enhance Beginning Reading
1. Develop a print-rich environment 2. Read daily from big, oversized books 3. Teach concepts of print via BIG books or on the SMART Board