VELS Level 1 and 2

English Developmental Continuum Levels 1 & 2 – Details of some teaching strategies for reading, writing, speaking and listening from the English Continuum.

Speaking and Listening

• Speaking and Listening Strategies – Outline some strategies that can be used to develop student speaking and listening skills.
• View the teaching strategies for speaking and listening using the text: Little Red Hen presented in the English Developmental Continuum – 0.5:
  • Ideas Communicated in speaking and listening
• Students generating questions – A comprehension strategy that supports students’ oral language development.
• Variety of methods for teaching vocabulary – Strategies to teach vocabulary.
• Teaching strategies for speaking and listening using the text: Little Obie and the Flood written by Martin Waddell presented in the English Developmental Continuum – 1.25:
  • Ideas Communicated in speaking and listening

Reading

• Reading for learning – Pause, Prompt, Praise – This is a strategy which aims to encourage students to monitor meaning from a text and to self-correct. It can be used any time the student is reading aloud.
• Reading Strategies Scaffolding: Collaborative Learning and Teaching – Describes the collaborative, social strategies of shared reading and guided reading that scaffold learning for students.
• Language Experience – Describes a teaching strategy that uses students’ experiences to create links between spoken language, written language and reading.
• Comprehension strategies – Describes four evidence-based comprehension strategies.
• Reading Strategies – Outline some strategies that can be used to develop student reading skills before during and after reading activities.
• Teaching reading fluency – A model of suggested strategies for teaching fluency and links to further readings on fluency.
• English Continuum Reading Videos
• Teaching strategies for Fiction and Non Fiction texts presented in the English Developmental Continuum.

Writing

• Writing Strategies Scaffolding: Collaborative Learning and Teaching – Describes the collaborative, social strategies of modelled writing, interactive writing and shared writing that scaffold learning for students.
• Comprehension Strategies: Responding to Reading Through Writing – Describes a strategy of writing about reading to improve comprehension.
• Adding on information - noun groups – Examines the use of noun groups to compress information in text.
• Teaching strategies for writing presented in the English Developmental Continuum 0.5:
  • Ideas Communicated in Writing
  • Conventions of Writing
  • Writing Strategy
• View the teaching strategies for writing presented in the English Developmental Continuum – 1.25