Strategies for Success - Virginia Rojas
Here are the additional files that Virginia Rojas shared after her presentation. There are many great resources here.
  • Assessment - Possible assessment tools for Language Arts, History, Science and Mathematics

  • Cooperative Learning Strategies - Kagen's Cooperative Learning Strategies

  • Differentiation - Description of various differentiation strategies and use with ELLs.

  • ELL Tools - Thirty-nine pages of strategies for ELLs including Conditions for Ensuring ELL Participation & Engagement, Activating Prior Knowledge and Building Background Knowledge, Scaffold Meaning, Extending Meaning, and Affirming Identity,

  • Reading Strategies - Twenty-nine pages of - Anticipations Guides, Checking Facts, Circle Seat Center, Coding Strategy, Collaborative Strategic Reading, Concept Collection, Cornell Method of Note Taking, Directed Reading Thinking Activity, Ellaborative Interrogation, Ethical Choices, Four-Way Reporting and Recording, Group Summarizing, Inductive Learning Strategy, Interactive Reading Guide, Infofiction, Investigative Teams, Key Concept Strategy, Kindling, K-N-W-S, L.E.T.S. Connect, Listservs, Message Boards, DVD-ROMS, CD-ROMS, Learning Logs. Math Notes Strategy, Math Reading Key, Narrow Reading Strategy, Opinion Guide, Paired Guided Reading, Pen-in-Hand Strategy, Peer Reading Strategy, Proposition./Support Outlines, QAR, Q-Space, Questioning the Author (Q & A), Q-Space, Questioning the Author, Questioning Menu Strategy, RAFT Strategy, Reading for Meaning, Read Three Times, Reading and Writing To Learn Strategy, REAP, Reciprocal Teaching Strategy, ReQuest, Row, Save the Last Word For Me, Scored Discussion Strategy, Scintillating Sentences, and Quizzical Quotes, Science Connection Overview, Skimming and Scanning, SMART (Self-Monitoring Approach to Reading and Thinking, Spawn, SQ3R, Story Grammar/Maps, Task Rotation Strategy, Think-Aloud Self=Assessment Strategy, T-Notes, Two-Minute Preview, Visual Reading Guide, X Marks the Spot.


  • Vocabulary Strategies - Including Alphabet Books, Character Trait Maps, Click and Clunk, Find Someone Who, Frayer Model, Making Words, Missing Words, Open Word Sort, IQ Most Important Words, Tri-Bond, Visual Structures, Vocab-marks, Procedure, Vocabulary Writing, Whats-It, Word Boxes/Journals, Word Chains, Word Cards, Strategy, Word Card Strategy, Word Walls, Zip Cloze,

  • Writing-Brain Writing as a Prewriting Tool, Cubing as a Prewriting Tool, Discussion Continuum as a Pre-Writing Tools, Examples as a Prewriting Tool, 4-2-1 Free Write Strategy as a Prewriting Tool, Journals as Prewriting Tools, Prewriting Chart as a Prewriting Tool, Task-Based Rubrics as a Prewriting Tool, Task-BasedWriting Process Rubric, Task-Based Writing Chec Bric, Writers Notebook as a Prewriting Tool, Guided Writing as a Drafting Tool, Henning's Sequence as a Drafttng Tool, Looping as a Drafting Tool, Pair Talking as a Drafting Tool, Writing Workshop as a Drafting/Revising/Editing Tool, Conferring as a Revising Tool, Double-Entry Journal as a Revising Tool, Two Column Count as a Revising Tool, Rewording as a Revising Tool, Sharing as a Revising Tool, Surprise! Strategy as a Revising Tool, Don't and Do List as an Editing Tool, Peer Editing as an Editing Tool, Publication as a Editing Tool,