Literacy Strategies

Try using an annotation guide (like the one linked in the picture) throughout the school year to increase students' interaction with a text.

Questioning is another very important literacy strategy to help children develop. It is having students ask questions about what they are reading. Asking questions can help students stay focused on a text and can also help them develop stronger skills to find the answers to their own questions, as well as the questions a peer or teacher may ask 

Jennifer Gonzalez of Cult of Pedagogy says, “Presenting information in both text and graphic formats is one of the most basic ways to make a lesson accessible to more students—the basis of Universal Design for Learning—and graphic organizers definitely fit the bill there.” (Gonzales 2017).