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    5 Effective Strategies for English

    Teachers
    Teaching English is no easy feat. With a variety of different skill levels in every
    classroom, teachers must employ effective strategies that allow each student
    to learn the material. Whether the class focuses on literature, grammar, or
    language skills, these teaching strategies will come in handy for many English
    teachers.

    Five Effective Strategies for English


    Teachers
    1. Vocabulary building. This is an important component of any English
    class. This strategy focuses a portion of each classroom session on building a
    better vocabulary. Teachers can ask students to point out unfamiliar words
    and go over the meanings in class or use interactive vocabulary-building
    exercises that relate to the class’s reading material.
    2. Writer’s workshop. Have students participate in a writer’s workshop
    several times each year. The writing workshop model created by Lucy
    Calkins, founder of the Teachers College Reading and Writing Project, allows
    students to learn about and participate in all aspects of the writing process:
    drafting, revision, editing and publishing.
    3. Peer response and editing. This can be a very valuable teaching
    strategy for both the teacher and the student, and there are many peer
    response strategies to try in class. Students get a chance to think critically
    about others’ writing and see the results their classmates got from a writing
    assignment. In addition, teachers can observe how different students learn
    and what strategies might work better in the future.
    4. Cooperative learning. This learning strategy is useful for English
    teachers who incorporate literature into their classroom. Cooperative
    learning requires students to discuss a piece of literature in small groups. By
    allowing the students to engage in meaningful discussion, they begin to learn
    to analyze literature and participate in an educational process that they will
    find more interesting than a general lecture on a chapter in a book.
    5. Student-chosen texts.  Allowing students to choose their own reading
    materials is a strategy that literacy specialists recommend as a way to
    develop lifelong readers. Students are given a choice of literature from an
    age- and reading level-appropriate book collection. After a period of
    independent reading, students break into groups and discuss what they’ve
    read, book club-style, followed by journaling. When this strategy is successful,
    students are able to delve deeply into the  meaning of the literature,  develop
    critiquing skills, and have a valuable discussion with their classmates about
    the book that they chose. Teachers who use this strategy finds that it can lead
    to a classroom that is engaged with literature.
    Depending on the grade level taught and the type of material assigned based
    on the curriculum plan, English teachers will have to try one or more of the
    above strategies to make their classroom work. The same strategy may not
    work from year to year, and  teachers may find that while one strategy works
    for one teacher, it does not work in their classroom. English teachers who are
    flexible and willing to experiment with teaching strategies are sure to find a
    winning formula.

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