AVReading Newsletter September: Instructional Strategies
Welcome to a new school year, AVHS! For those of you new to our building, the AVReading Newsletter is a monthly publication dedicated to promoting literacy. Each year, the newsletters focus on a specific theme, and while I had one picked out this summer, I chose to change it last week, in response to an activity we did as a staff. In that activity, we identified topics that we-- as a staff-- were most interested in studying, and instrustructional strategies was one of the most popular. So for this year, the AVReading Newsletters will examine a wide range of instructional strategies. This month’s newsletter, then, will focus on a general overview of what is to come. Before doing that, however, it is important to put instructional strategies within the wider context of what we do as teachers and as a school. For example, an emphasis on instructional strategies assumes that we are constantly working to connect our conte...