Literacy+Skills+and+Strategies

== = These are some important strategies to follow and help improve adolescent literacy. =

Materials/Resources

- Districts and teachers need to provide a wide range of materials for adolescents. o Provide a variety of genres for students to explore. o Inquire about student’s interests to meet their needs in all content areas. - Bring in all types of literacies including technology such as: blogs, texting, twitter, and wikis. - Understand that literacy is all around us and it influences the student’s motivation and engagement.

Prior knowledge

- Teachers need draw out the student's prior knowledge of the topic to ensure that they will comprehend what is being read. - If students do not have prior knowledge of the topic it is the teacher's responsibility to build that prior knowledge with resources such as: internet, magazine articles, and/or discussion. - If students have the prior knowledge it will enable them to make connections with the text. Opportunity to read

- Students have very little if any time to do independent reading in secondary schools. - Teachers need to provide time every day for students to read (S.S.R. time or D.E.A.R. time) independently. [] - Teachers need to model reading to their students to show that they enjoy reading as well. - Teachers need to read aloud to students no matter what their age is!

= Question : How do you build prior knowledge ?=