The English Language Acquisition Classroom (ELA)  
     
  Encourage Independent Reading  
     
     
  Infuse Pre-Reading and Pre-Writing Strategies  
     
 

Pre-Reading Strategies

 
 

Directed Reading-Thinking Activity

 
 

Pal Reading: Developing Fluency and Comprehension with Paired Reading

 
 

Increasing Your Students' Reading Fluency: Strategies That Work, Grades 1-3

 
     
     
     
 

Pre-Writing Strategies

 

Kindergarten Pre-Writing Lesson: Building Sentences

Kindergarten Pre-Writing Lesson: Questions and Answers

 

Kindergarten Pre-Writing Lesson: Opposite Words

 
 

Kindergarten Pre-Writing Lesson: Words and Pictures

 
     
     
     
     
  Teach Students to Annotate Text  

Close Reading

 

Jigsaws: A Strategy for Understanding Texts

 
 

Close Reading in Elementary Schools

 
     
  Ask Text-Based evidence Questions  
     
  Immerse Students in the Genre  
     
     
  Provide Options for Writing