How and Why We Teach Reading Strategies to Elementary Students EP 28

Today's episode is focused on reading skills and strategies. Elizabeth begins by discussing the definitions of reading skills and reading strategies and gives examples of both. She gives an example of how strategies can be taught when reading to kids and offers ideas for teaching practices that can help when modeling strategies to students. The episode ends on a positive note with a story of how Elizabeth used the book, Black and White by David Macaulay with her students. Black and White is a postmodern picture book, which requires a lot of thinking through the text. Her students discovered all the skills that they were implementing when reading the book! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices