Literacy Professional Learning Resource – Teaching Strategies

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VELS level 5 & 6

Speaking and listening

• Speaking and listening strategies for all VELS domains – strategies that can be adapted to a single VELS domain or for programs that have multiple domains to support students in meeting the literacy demands of their learning.

Reading

• Reading strategies for all VELS domains – strategies that can be adapted to a single VELS domain or for programs that have multiple domains to support students in meeting the literacy demands of their learning.
  • Literacy to Learn: Getting students knowledge ready for literacy learning videos - Secondary teachers working in Northern Metropolitan region with Associate Professor John Munro have trialled and developed a series of literacy teaching procedures to support literacy learning in all learning domains.
• Detailed reading: A teaching strategy for high level support in reading and writing – a strategy that provides high level support for students involving the three phases of text marking, note making and rewriting at either the paragraph or sentence level.
• Guided reading: Reciprocal teaching – this section explains the strategy of Reciprocal Teaching and provides information about its use in the classroom.
  • Guided reading: Reciprocal teaching videos - In the following video clips teachers and their students demonstrate the strategies for reciprocal teaching: predicting, clarifying, question generating, and summarising.
• 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.
• View teaching strategies for reading non-fiction – persuasive and factual texts in the English Developmental Continuum
• View teaching strategies for reading non-fiction and fiction texts in the English Developmental Continuum
  • Teaching strategies for fiction and non-fiction texts at level 4
  • Teaching strategies for fiction and non-fiction texts at level 4.5
  • Teaching strategies for fiction and non-fiction texts at level 5

Writing

• Writing strategies for all VELS domains – strategies that can be adapted to a single VELS domain or for programs that have multiple domains to support students in meeting the literacy demands of their learning.
• View teaching strategies for writing reports: 5.0 in the English Developmental Continuum
• View teaching strategies for writing exposition: 6.0 in the English Developmental Continuum