How can we demonstrate inquiry-based instruction?
Last week, we were tasked with doing our own research on inquiry-based instruction that ended with an amazing lesson taught by Mrs. Pontius. This week is a continuation on inquiry-based instruction by taking it one step further by looking at literacy strategies.
Literacy Strategies
Literacy strategies can be used for any school subject. They are useful tools that enable students to make connections between concepts, organize their thoughts, and retain important information. There are many literacy strategies to pick from. A few that I found during my research are:
- Paragraph Highlighting
- Chapter Tours
- Prediction Pairs
- Double Entry Diary
- Think-Write-Pair Share
Why are Literacy Strategies important?
Literacy strategies are very helpful in all situations. They are especially important for inquiry-based instruction. Students will need literacy skills in order to be successful with inquiry-based projects. By implementing different literacy strategies before inquiry-based instruction, you are setting your students up for success!
Implementation
I think that all the strategies I listed above would be very useful in the classroom. The one strategy I plan to implement during my student teaching internship is the paragraph highlighting. This strategy can be used with news articles where students first read the article individually while highlighting important passages as they see fit. The next step is to have students work in pairs to see which passages are highlighted differently or the same. Finally, students talk about why the chose the sections they did to highlight. This strategy allows students to look at the same piece of information three times and in three different ways. By utilizing this strategy, I believe that students will be able to contextualize the information and allow them to generate their own thoughts on the material in an organized fashion.
I definitely agree with you that highlighting is a great strategy and one I would use in my classroom also!
ReplyDeleteOlivia, I like how you choose different types of literacy strategies to focus on. Thank you for sharing how you would use the highlighting strategy with your students, and how you can tailor it to the ag classroom. Can you provide more information on how you would use the others or what made you choose to research them?
ReplyDeleteOlivia, thank you for sharing! I'd love to hear more about some of the strategies you shared about. Chapter tours, prediction pairs, and double entry diary sound interesting!
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