BHS ELA Instructional Guide

● Active Reading Strategies: Encourage students to annotate, ask questions, and make connections while reading to deepen understanding. ● Discussion and Collaborative Learning:

The Skill, Will, and Thrill of Reading Comprehension, Doug Fisher and Nancy Frey, ASCD

Active Reading Techniques (cont’d)

Resource: Writing Text Dependent Questions

Foster discussion and critical thinking through small group and whole class discussions.

● Post-Reading Refection and Extension Activities: Synthesize understanding and extend learning through writing responses and engaging in projects.

WRITING

A Culture of Writers

Foster a dynamic writing environment that sustains a positive writing culture and empowers students as writers. Write daily in a variety of formats, and for a variety of purposes. Use low stakes writing to write about content to navigate ideas, build upon learning and comprehension, and to communicate thinking. Provide frequent during-writing feedback and targeted instruction based on formative data.

The Writing Habit Writingto Learn

See the CSD Writing Framework, linked image below, to learn more and to see strategies for each pillar of the Writing Framework.

Writing Feedback

Writingas Process Specifc strategy instruction on the characteristics and components of good writing via modeling, explanation, and guided practice. Writing Modes Use technology and emerging technologies to support writing processes, practices, and products. Mentor Texts Select writing that exemplifes specifc literary techniques, genres, or styles, providing students with models to analyze and emulate in their own writing.

By studying mentor texts, students can gain insight into effective writing strategies, deepen their understanding of literary conventions, and improve their skills through guided practice and refection.

Last Updated August 13, 2024

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