ELA Strategy Summaries Combined PDF

Recommendations from the WWC Practice Guide Foundational Skills to Support Reading for Understanding in Kindergarten through 3rd Grade

Summary of Recommendation 1: Teach students academic language skills, including the use of inferential and narrative language, and vocabulary knowledge.

Summary of Recommendation 2: Develop awareness of the segments of sound in speech and how they link to letters.

Summary of Recommendation 3: Teach students to decode words, analyze word parts, and write and recognize words.

Summary of Recommendation 4: Ensure that each student reads connected text every day to support reading accuracy, fluency, and comprehension.

Recommendations from the WWC Practice Guide Improving Adolescent Literacy: Effective Classroom and Intervention Practices

Summary of Recommendation 1: Provide explicit vocabulary instruction.

Summary of Recommendation 2: Provide direct and explicit comprehension strategy instruction.

Summary of Recommendation 3: Provide opportunities for extended discussion of text meaning and interpretation.

Summary of Recommendation 4: Increase student motivation and engagement in literacy learning.

Recommendations from the WWC Practice Guide Improving Reading Comprehension in Kindergarten through 3rd Grade

Summary of Recommendation 1: Teach students how to use reading comprehension strategies.

Summary of Recommendation 2: Teach students to identify and use the text’s organizational structure to comprehend, learn, and remember content.

Summary of Recommendation 3: Guide students through focused, high-quality discussion on the meaning of the text.

Summary of Recommendation 5: Establish an engaging and motivating context in which to teach reading comprehension.

Recommendations from the WWC Practice Guide Providing Reading Interventions for Students in Grades 4-9

Summary of Recommendation 1: Build students’ decoding skills so they can read complex multisyllabic words.

Summary of Recommendation 2: Provide purposeful fluency-building activities to help students read effortlessly.

Summary of Recommendation 3a: Build students’ world and word knowledge so they can make sense of the text.

Summary of Recommendation 3b: Consistently provide students with opportunities to ask and answer questions to better understand the text they read.

Summary of Recommendation 3c: Teach students a routine for determining the gist of a short section of text.

Summary of Recommendation 3d: Teach students to monitor their comprehension as they read.

Summary of Recommendation 4: Provide students with opportunities to practice making sense of a stretch text (i.e., challenging text) that will expose them to complex ideas and information.

Recommendations from the WWC Practice Guide Teaching Elementary School Students to Be Effective Writers

Summary of Recommendation 2a: Teach students the writing process.

Summary of Recommendation 2b: Teach students to write for a variety of purposes.

Summary of Recommendation 3: Teach students to become fluent in handwriting, spelling, sentence construction, typing, and word processing.

Summary of Recommendation 4: Create an engaged community of writers.

Recommendations from the WWC Practice Guide Teaching Secondary Students to Write Effectively

Summary of Recommendation 1: Explicitly teach appropriate writing strategies using a Model-Practice- Reflect instructional cycle.

Summary of Recommendation 2: Integrate writing and reading to emphasize key writing features.

Summary of Recommendation 3: Use assessments of student writing to inform instruction and feedback.