What is teaching strategies for the development of literacy skills and teaching resources?

Our library provides effective, research-based classroom strategies to help strengthen your students’ skills in phonological awareness, decoding, fluency, vocabulary, comprehension, and writing.

When using any teaching strategy, teachers should (1) help students to understand why a strategy is useful, and (2) describe explicitly how the strategy should be used. Teacher demonstration, modeling, and follow-up independent practice are critical factors for success. Student discussion following strategy instruction is also helpful.

Each strategy in the library includes:

• Instructions on how to use the strategy
• Classroom video
• Downloadable templates
• Examples
• Differentiation for second language learners, students of varying reading skill, students with learning disabilities, and younger learners
• Supporting research
• Recommended children's books to use with the strategy

Which strategy?

The chart below lists all of the strategies currently in our library. To quickly find the strategies you need, use the filters below.

For the comprehension strategies, you can also see which strategies are best used before, during, and/or after reading (B/D/A). “Before” strategies activate students’ prior knowledge and set a purpose for reading. “During” strategies help students make connections, monitor their understanding, generate questions, and stay focused. “After” strategies provide students an opportunity to summarize, question, reflect, discuss, and respond to text.