Strategy Purpose
Line-Up - Collaboration amongst 1) Provide students with a topic
(Sharron Bassano) students.
- Practice sequential order
Morning Pages - Free write
(Julia Cameron) - Ideas flow naturally
- Encourage creativity and
meditation of the mind.
Sprinting - Helps students build
(Natalie Goldberg) reading stamina.
- Students are motivated to
write ideas down quickly
- Think fast.
Procedure
1) Community builder
that requires them to get in
sequential order. (Example:
Birthday, Height, or ABC
order)
2) Students talk aloud and line up
in order.
3) Students share their topic.
1) Students will write about any
subject or topic that they are
interested in.
2) Time limit is ten minutes.
1) Students write for ten minutes
every day.
2) The teacher will provide the
students with a topic, subject
or, a single word.
3) Students are meant to write
down anything that pops into
their head when they read this
topic or word.
Classroom Application
2) Events in a story
1) Include in the morning
routine.
2) Check to see students writing
skills.
3) Build schema
4) Students will become fluent
writers.
1) May include in morning
routine or a warm up.
2) Can be used for students to
brainstorm and gather an
informal outline of their
future writing task or essay.
 4) The teacher continuously alters
the word and gives them a new
one.
5) Students can write about the
new word or continue writing
about the previous word.
6) This proceeds until they time is
over.

Writers Notebook - The point is for students
(Ralph Fletcher) to feel less intimidated by
writing.
- To write and have ideas
flow easily.
- Develop writing stamina.
1) Students write in their
notebooks for about 10-15
minutes without any kind of
structure or guidelines.
2) Students must write freely.
1) This can be demonstrated
before, during, or after
students have read a passage
to help collect ideas.
2) Brainstorm.
3) Lessen anxiety about writing
an essay.

Academic - Allows the teacher to
Language Corners activate prior knowledge
or schema.
- Encourages academic
language development.
1) The teacher will display various
illustrations.
2) Students will use post-its to
label the picture by identifying
if it is a noun, adjective,
synonym, or verb.
3) This can help build vocabulary
and sentence structure.
1) In the classroom, this will
help students develop
teamwork and writing skills.
2) Students will recognize the
different parts of speech and
how to use them correctly.
 Line of - A way for students to
Communication practice communication
skills.
- Check for understanding.
1) Student will create two lines.
2) Students will face each other in
pairs.
3) One line will move. Therefore,
partners will alter and students
can meet with multiple people
in their class.
1) Students will be able to
discuss reading material.
2) This can be applied before,
during, or after a reading of
the text.

Reciprocal - Comprehensible input
Teaching - Practice fluency
- Practice reading aloud
- Collaboration
- Accountability
Close Reading - Break down language.
- Develop language
- Integrate content
- Help with meaning and
comprehension of a text.
Pictorial - Activate prior knowledge
Conversations - Look at a picture and
make meaning of it.
1) Students will be placed into 1) Students will collaborate,
groups of four. discuss, and think critically.
2) Each student will have a 2) They will produce academic
specific job. For example, language and check for
(Summarizer, Questioner, meaning when using this
Clarifier, Word Wiz, or strategy.
Predictor)
3) Students will read a certain
passage or text.
4) Each person will be held
accountable to complete the
description of their assigned
job.
1) Read the text. 1) This strategy can be used for
2) Read the text AGAIN, but read all styles of text or writing,
for a different purpose or a
different goal in mind.
1) Cut pieces of a picture. 1) Introduce time
2) Teacher will give a different cut lines/chronological order.
out to teach student. 2) Sequence a story.
 - Access descriptive 3) Students will use descriptive
language. language to find pieces that are
a good fit or that match.
4) Describe illustrations using
sentence frames.
Open Word Sort - Practice patterns of a 1) Words are cut and mixed.
word. 2) Students will be in groups to
- See the similarities or sort words into categories.
differences of a word.
3) Re-tell a story to see if
students were paying
attention.
4) Refer to a story.
1) Students will learn spelling
patterns.
2) Students can understand
parts of speech.