An approach that
addresses literacy in
specific content
areas but in every
content area to help
promote reading and
writing across the
curriculum.
Application: Reading a historical fiction novel to
give students a more relatable view of the Roman
Republic or ancient China.
Language Experience
Approach
This approach
attempts to bridge
prior knowledge and
learning new content
by having the
student speaks
about an experience
and then later reads
this same written
experience
developing further
language skills
Application: Have students share personal experiences of history
they have already learned from their own culture, verbally. After
students have all shared, teacher prints quotes and has students
read different student's experience out loud.
Balanced
Reading
Approach
The Balanced Reading
Approach is based on
the idea that students
initially learn reading in
multiple ways and that
plenty of opportunities
and variations in
learning activities are
presented to help
foster these various
learning methods.
Application:
Create
multiple
reading
stations
that
encourage
different
ways to
learn to
read such
as read
aloud,
journal
writing, and
interactives
Process Writing
This approach treats the classroom as a
center of writing in which the teacher
models writing techniques to promote
writing skills and encourages revision
and corrections.
Application:
Students journal
write/quick write
importance of lesson
learned in content
after teacher
modeling and with
peer/teacher
corrections and
revisions
encouraged
Cooperative Learning
Students are placed into specifically
selected groups based on language
proficiency to help foster social
interaction and to help students work
together as opposed to competing with each other.
Students are placed into groups to recreate a section of the Story of the Buddha to understand the origins of Buddhism.
Inquiry Approaches
The Inquiry
Approaches
method of
teaching involves
going more in
depth on topics by
asking
higher-order
thinking questions
and giving the
students more
input in developing
how they will learn
the content.
Application: Student theorize the
biggest cultural impact of the Black
Death and use primary and secondary
sources to prove or disprove their theory.
CALLA
This approach
emphasizes
content
instruction,
academic
language and
literacy skills as
well as explicit
learning
strategies. The
content is
thought of first
and academic
and literacy skills
are built around
this core. Explicit
learning
strategies are
used to scaffold
instruction.
Application: Teacher
chooses the
mummification
process in ancient
Egypt to cover in
class. The teacher
then provides
language and
literacy activities
such as vocabulary
and webquests to
develop language
and content skills.