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Top Ten Instructional Strategies
Rachel Bassingthwaite
American College of Education
LIT5353 Linguistics and Literature
Dr. Ashley Gaten
December 10, 2023
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Top Ten Instructional Strategies
Introduction
The importance of student engagement lies in the fact that it indicates a student's mental
state while they are learning, and when a student is engaged, an intersection of feeling and
thinking should occur, leading to deep learning (Foster, 2021). Engaged students care about what
they are being taught, feel motivated to learn, and take responsibility for their learning (Foster,
2023). The first step to engaging students and preparing them for learning is to create a
conducive environment in the classroom (Foster, 2021). It is important for students to feel safe
and valued so that they can follow through with literacy activities without fear of making
mistakes or being judged by the teacher or peers (Foster, 2023). After creating a good classroom
environment a teacher can use interactive lecturing, think-pair-share, small group work, writing
activities, group discussion, interactive games, experiments, music, video, and an anticipation
guide (Foster, 2021) (Reading Rockets, 2023). The following ten strategies will assist students in
engaging with literacy activities and are catered to a kindergarten class (Foster, 2021).
Strategy 1
The first thing that needs to happen in a classroom is…
Strategy 2
The second strategy is interactive lecturing. With a curriculum that is very long and
wordy making sure students have breaks to move and refocus their thoughts with a partner is
very helpful for this active class. A teacher needs to
provide two or three-minute pauses between
mini-lecture sections so students can discuss and revise their notes and talk about their thoughts
in pairs during the lecture (Foster, 2021).
Strategy 3
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The third strategy is similar and can be used with the first strategy but can also be used
independently and often, think-pair-share (Foster, 2021). Think pair share is interactive as it
helps an active class while also making sure students think about answers and ways to solve
problems by themselves (Reading Rockets, 2023). After students think about their answers or
ideas they then turn to a partner and share their thoughts (Reading Rockets, 2023) Students then
can discuss their answers together, fix any confusion, and and come to a conclusion to share with
the rest of the class.(Reading Rockets, 2023)
Strategy 4
For the fourth strategy using small group work is very efficient and engaging (Foster,
2021). Teachers need to make sure they look at how all students are engaging in the strategy as
there are a lot of rules such as leader, creator, timekeeper, researcher, etc. (Foster, 2021).
Strategy 5
Writing is an important part of literacy and can be missed and not used much especially
in younger ages like a kindergarten class. That being said the fifth strategy is writing activities
(Foster, 2021). Writing activities will be very dependent on what point of the year a kindergarten
class is in and will also need to be differentiated for the writing strategies each child is at (Foster,
2021).
Strategy 6
Group discussion is the sixth strategy to employ with a class (Foster, 2021). This strategy
takes a classroom that has a good environment where students trust each other and feel safe to
make mistakes (Foster, 2021). The teacher must have good classroom management and be able
to facilitate in such a way that students' voices are being heard and the conversation keeps
moving (Foster, 2021). This can be done in lots of ways and will depend on the class it is being
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used in (Foster, 2021). One idea is calling it a fish bowl and giving students goldfish they eat
after talking, they have to eat all of their goldfish but they can’t talk once they are gone, this
makes sure all students talk and no one is monopolizing the conversation (Foster, 2021).
Strategy 7
For a very active class interactive games are crucial for engagement and are thus the
seventh strategy (Foster, 2021). Interactive games will incorporate movement and learning
(Foster, 2021). Students will be able to have fun while also cementing the learning that is going
on (Foster, 2021).
Strategy 8
For the eighth strategy, teachers can incorporate
experiments into their lessons (Foster,
2021). Experiments are a great way for students to understand the knowledge portion of
whatever literacy they are currently reading, without understanding the knowledge portion their
comprehension will be low (Foster, 2021). Experiments can always be used but when they can be
it is an interactive and fun way for students to understand the reading material more deeply
(Foster, 2021).
Strategy 9
Kindergarten is considered early childhood and kids love to sing and listen to music, they
seem to have a natural rhythm. That being said the ninth strategy is to incorporate
music into
literacy work (Foster, 2021). Music catches students' attention, is fun, and is a great way to learn
because music is an easy way for the brain to process and store information (Foster, 2021).
Strategy 10
Lastly getting students excited for whatever reading you are doing is very important, no
one wants to read something uninteresting. To get students to build excitement a teacher can use
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an
anticipation guide (Foster, 2021). An anticipation guide can be catered to the text being read
by using thoughtful moral questions that will come up in the reading, allowing students to show
what they already no, make predictions, and so much more (Foster, 2021).
Conclusion
These ten strategies are researched and should increase classroom engagement. Before a
teacher can start employing them they need to create a good classroom environment (Foster,
2021). Once students feel comfortable and safe teacher can start to use: interactive lecturing,
think-pair-share, small group work, writing activities, group discussion, interactive games,
experiments, music, video, and an anticipation guide (Foster, 2021) (Reading Rockets, 2023).
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American College of Education, (2017).
LIT5353 Linguistics & literature: Modules 1-4
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Canvas.
https://ace.instructure.com/courses/1970307/external_tools/118428
Foster, S. (2023, January 23).
Facilitating and assessing student engagement in the
classroom
. Center for Teaching & Learning.
https://www.colorado.edu/center/teaching-learning/2023/01/23/facilitating-
nd-assessing-student-engagement-classroom
Reading Rockets. (2023).
Classroom strategy library | reading rockets
. www.readingrockets.org;
Reading Rockets.
https://www.readingrockets.org/classroom/classroom-strategies
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