3. Teaching Strategies That Expert Learners Use in Reading and Writing to Close the Achievement Gap

Literacy matters. Different Ways of Knowing enhances and accelerates schoolwide literacy development and helps teachers close the gap between developing and successful learners. Our coaching support and tools model research-validated strategies that help students deepen their understanding across the curriculum and expand their capacity as powerful communicators.

• Enhancing and accelerating literacy development through before, during, and after reading strategies that target:

— Fluency
— Vocabulary building
— Key comprehension strategies: predicting, visualizing, making connections, questioning, summarizing
— Levels of questioning for engagement and comprehension

• Understanding and applying daily literacy strategies for student engagement and expression focused on

  — Listening
  — Speaking
  — Viewing
  — Reading
  — Writing