Literacy Professional Learning Resource – Teaching Strategies

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Literacy teaching strategies: VELS 1 & 2 | VELS 3 | VELS 4 | VELS 5 & 6

VELS level 3

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 – describes the collaborative, social strategies of reading to students, guided reading-reciprocal teaching and developing automaticity that scaffold learning for students.
  • Reading - strategies that can be used to develop student reading skills.

Writing