Instructional Strategy The instructional strategy that may work best for instructing Crescent’s students in the first learning objective of increasing student’s reading ability is the ability to work in small groups. To learn sounds and words from one another under a teacher’s guidance. To allow student’s to have multiple opportunities to practice the sounds and words. During cognitivism within the classroom, small groups allow students to partner read within the classroom and discuss various components of words that are unknown and will be able to help one another learn. Students can be assessed through the use of a DRA to measure the current reading level and to determine if additional intervention is needed, following the cognitivism theory of measuring student achievement, then preceding further with learning. The second learning objective of increasing reading comprehension skills might best be taught with the instructional strategy of reading stories aloud to one another and answering questions regarding the story to each other. Students would also learn from completing projects about the passage or story read. The assignment would allow for a teacher to asses the understanding using these discussions and projects. Additionally, other comprehension based assessments and the DRA could be used …show more content…
On a daily basis, our K-8 students using technology to access learning on software programs designed for remediation or for enrichment. For example, students are using an iPad to complete reading assignments on the internet based program called Raz-Kids. Raz-Kids allows students to read books on the tablet (by means of an application) or computer website. While working on Raz-Kids, students listen to leveled readers, read the leveled readers, and are assessed on the details of the story. This program helps teachers to monitor progress within the