Instructional strategies are techniques teachers use to help students become independent, strategic learners. These strategies become learning strategieswhen students independently select the appropriate ones and use them effectively to accomplish tasks or meet goals.
A few examples of instructional strategies for reading are:
activating prior knowledge using a word wall using graphic organizers using technology allowing student choice while selecting a book asking questions of your own as you read summarizing as you go through the chapters
A few examples of instructional strategies for writing are:
audio record what you write audio transcribe what you write peer talks incorporate art use pictures to spark ideas in writing use story starters to get ideas flowing
