Teaching+Strategies

__Teaching Strategies__
 * **LEA** (shown in attached Lesson Plan)
 * **Phonimic Awareness** (shown in attached Lesson Plan)
 * **Say Something** ( was uses at multiple times to activate rich conversation about story reading )
 * **Literature Circles** (guided reading groups; my teacher is good about conversation before and after story each student took over an active listening part)
 * **KWL** (chart was made to aroung Thanksgiving holiday to find out just how much second graders really know and waht to learn about the true Thanksgiving story)
 * **Story Mapping** ( students discuss a story mapp of book read a-loud and described each part that a typical story contains then filled one out them selves)
 * **Sound Boxes** ( ocassionally when in a guided reading if a particular student is struggling I will pull aside to have child participate in Sound boxes for word breakdowns)
 * **Word Wall** ( a word wall is always available for reference for every student located on the front bulletin board)
 * **Word Sorts** ( used to show similarites in a collection of words)
 * **Reader's Theatre** ( shown in attached Lesson Plan)