Especially for Teachers - Teaching Strategies

Teaching Strategies

Information about specific teaching strategies

A table of teaching strategies is laid out below along with indications of their capability and band. A key to the headings in the table is set out here:

Click on any of the teaching strategies below to go to a description of it along with
information on how to use it.

Teaching Strategy	S & L	R & V	W	Band A	Band B	Band C	Band D
Academic controversy	•				•	•	•
Alphaladder	•		•		•	•	•
Asking questions	•	•	•	•	•	•	•
Book discussion groups	•	•		•	•	•	•
Book raps	•	•	•	•	•	•	•
Book share	•	•		•	•	•	•
Choral speaking	•	•		•	•	•	•
Cloze	•	•	•	•	•	•	•
Conferencing	•	•	•	•	•	•	•
Consensus 1 - 3 -6	•			•	•	•	•
Debating	•				•	•	•
Dictogloss	•	•	•	•	•	•	•
DRTA	•	•		•	•	•	•
Electronic Read-arounds		•	•	•	•	•	•
Guided reading	•	•		•	•	•
Guided writing			•	•	•	•	•
Imaginative re-creation	•	•	•	•	•	•	•
Interview the author	•	•		•	•	•	•
Jigsaw	•	•	•	•	•	•	•
Joint Construction	•	•	•	•	•	•
Journals		•	•	•	•	•	•
Literary Sociograms	•	•	•	•	•	•	•
Plot profile or plot line	•	•	•	•	•	•	•
PMI	•	•	•	•	•	•	•
Readers theatre	•	•		•	•	•	•
Reading aloud	•	•		•	•	•	•
Retelling	•	•	•	•	•	•	•
Scamper	•	•	•	•	•	•	•
Sequence chart	•	•	•	•	•	•	•
Six thinking hats	•	•	•	•	•	•	•
Small group discussion	•			•	•	•	•
Spelling		•	•	•	•	•
Think -pair -share	•			•	•	•	•
Venn diagrams			•	•	•	•	•
Y charts	•		•	•	•	•	•
Word grid	•	•	•	•	•	•	•