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Innovative instructional strategies:
What are some of your favorite instructional strategies?
One of my absolute favorite strategies for reading fluency - and even oral language development - is utilizing silly voices! I have created over 200 voices for educators and families to use! Teachers and families can take advantage of early literacy reader's theater scripts and implement repeated readings using a variety of these voices. It is SO much (more) fun to read or speak in a silly voice!
Voices provide skill development in prosody, inflection, word attack, and so much more!
Check out these FREE resources at: https://www.ginapepin.com/apps-1/teaching-resources

One of my favorite ELA resources - and/or strategy is to include student interest inventories and interviews. Truly knowing a student's perception regarding reading and/or writing gives me a lot of insight into their strengths and needs. Here is a simple inventory from my book with Eric Litwin (Scholastic). I am always amazed by a child's response to these questions. I will often ask them to do this a couple of times throughout the year to gather more data.

I like to teach students about chunking out sounds. This helps them to decode faster. I have shown my students videos by Jack Hartmann and Nessy on YouTube to help teach this strategy.

Cross-curricular teaching! Incorporating science and social studies is incredibly engaging and the motivation helps push students literacy skills.

Here is a Screencast of my website and what the Voice Jar cards look like! View now to see how to download and enjoy!

In this video I share a quick easy tool to use in your classroom to support early language and literacy development!

Can you tell that ELA is my favorite topic! I have a simple poster to share with you so that your students can easily remember the 5 vowels! Post it in your classroom, share with families, print smaller versions for your student's folders or desks!

My favorite strategy is to have students wear a pointer finger, which are the monster/witch fingers available in the fall. They can track where they are at when reading or tap along with their pointer finger.
It’s a silly little thing that helps students stay engaged in their task of reading, but helps so much!

Kristen- we always include these in our family literacy bags for reading month .. some sort of monster or witch finger!