What is the ICED Writing Strategy?
What is the ICED Writing Strategy?
Abbreviated for Idea, Citation, Explanation and Defense of Thesis (ICED); the ICED writing strategy helps students to improve the quality of their writing assignments. This strategy teaches students how to strengthen the content (body paragraphs) of their essays and other similar writing assignments.
Why use the ICED writing strategy […]
What is Persuasive Writing?
What is persuasive writing?
Persuasive writing is a written form of an oral debate and can be a fun and interesting style of writing for students.
Persuasive writing is used to convince or persuade a reader that the writer’s opinion of a topic or cause is correct. When writing persuasive essays students need to […]
Interventions to Improve Comprehension Skills
Use these simple reading techniques to improve comprehension skills.
The ability to comprehend or understand what one reads or hears is an extremely important skill to develop for both education and life after school. The ability to read has no value if the read passage cannot be comprehended or understood. When children begin to […]
Examine and Evaluate Student Work Consistently and Fairly
Follow these guidelines to evaluate student work fairly and effectively…
Evaluation is an integral part of educating students as it determines whether or not the goals of education are being met. Teachers and parents use test scores and feedback to gauge a student’s academic strengths and weaknesses. Communities rely on these scores and feedback […]
Promote Cooperative Learning in the Classroom
Help students learn from each other and gain interpersonal skills…
When students collaborate they begin to understand one another better as well as increase their subject knowledge. Although some time and planning is needed, collaborative classroom activities can make a large impact on students.
How does it work?
Students work in groups of two or more […]
The Peer Assisted Learning Strategy in the Classroom
Use PALS to incorporate teaching and learning into activities for students. Create an atmosphere of learning that caters to every learner’s skills and abilities.
What is the Peer Assisted Learning Strategy (PALS)?
The Peer Assisted Learning Strategy (PALS) is a class-wide peer-tutoring program that addresses the different learning needs of every student. This cooperative learning […]
Writing Strategies to Improve Student Writing
Use the SRSD concept to choose writing strategies to enhance student writing.
Many teachers struggle with how to effectively teach specific skills. It is crucial that teachers are equipped with specific strategies that address specific skills.Being fully equipped with these teaching instructions can enhance student learning and help achieve important learning goals.
One common skill […]
What is Fluency Oriented Reading Instruction?
What is Fluency Oriented Reading Instruction (FORI)?
Fluency Oriented Reading Instruction is a teaching instruction that aims to improve reading among students. It is often used as a prevention strategy or a whole classroom strategy to reading. FORI focuses on oral reading competency by using many different oral-reading practices. The three main aspects of […]
One Stop Guide to Planning a Virtual Field Trip
Coordinate a guided exploration through the world on the web with these pre-planning tips…
Catching the attention of a diverse group of students, sustaining their interest in a subject, going beyond basic book knowledge, presenting experiences that will be etched in their memory and helping them make real-life connections – these are some […]
What Are Power Notes?
What Are Power Notes?
Power Notes is an organizational tool that helps students systematically organize and categorize information from any assigned topic. This writing strategy incorporates a technique of outlining where students can identify, differentiate and organize information into main ideas and supportive details.
In this strategy the ideas are given a numerical power rating […]
