VELS Level 3

Speaking and listening

• Speaking and listening strategies – Explanation of some strategies that can be used to develop student speaking and listening skills during reading and writing activities.
• Further speaking and listening strategies – Further strategies that can be used to develop student speaking and listening skills during reading and writing activities.

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

• Writing - Explanation of some strategies that can be used to develop student writing skills.
• Writing strategies – Describes the collaborative, social strategies of modelled writing, shared writing, guided writing and roving conferences that scaffold learning for students.
• Creating more complex noun groups: Adding on information – Explores students’ growing control of the noun group as they move towards more literate language.
• View the English Developmental Continuum for teaching strategies using the fiction text: Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes by Eleanor Coerr, published by G.P. Putman Sons.
• View teaching strategies for writing recounts in the English Developmental Continuum
• View the English Developmental Continuum for teaching strategies using the non-fiction text Coral Islands