Student Compass: Instructional Strategies Bank  

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Word Recognition/Vocabulary Strategies

  • Word Study Notebooks - The notebook is a diary and collection of words students have studied.
  • Teach Rime Patterns - Rime Patterns are what teachers used to know as word families.
  • High-Frequency Word - Improve students’ knowledge of high-frequency words and sight words.  High frequency words are those words that are often seen in reading passages.
  • Word Banks - Word Banks are a collection of words students learn to read.
  • 6-STEP Word Identification Technique - A multi-sensory technique to help readers identify words they don’t know.
  • Cross-Check - Teach them how to cross-check.
  • Cooperative Learning Strategies - The are several simple cooperative learning structures that can be used to with students in groups or pairs to review vocabulary.

 

Strategies to be used in more than one area:

  • Chunking - Chunking is when you look at a word and divide it into pieces.
  • Using Prefixes and Suffixes - The strategy of teaching Prefixes, Suffixes and how they relate to Root Words helps older students with decoding difficulties.