UNIVERSIDAD DE SANTA ISABEL PILI CAMPUS

San Agustin, Pili, Camarines Sur

ENGLISH DEPARTMENT
Academic Year 2015- 2016

List of Strategies Used in Teaching Grade 8 English Subject

1. The Six Thinking Boxes

A matrix-form boxes which comes in six different colors, namely; white, black, red,
green, orange and blue which indicate six different purposes extracting, comprehension,
understanding, meaning making and critical thinking of a student. This is suitable for teaching
stories, and other literary forms.

2. Think-Write-Pair-Share
A strategy that enables a student to validate his/her presumed ideas and opinions if it is
correct or not through a collaborative way of sharing it to others. This allows student to derive
understanding from a topic, let him/her gather and record data by writing, then pair it to other
data to validate its correctness and eventually share it to a bigger group for further validation
and presentation of output.

3. Picture Walk
This is a SCANNING strategy best used for language topics especially literary pieces
such as short stories, essays, articles, editorials, and the like. This allows student to scan as
quickly as possible and highlight important key points or words, then asking them to make a
picture of what the lesson is really all about. This is an introductory strategy before going deep
into a certain lesson.

4. Gallery Walk
This strategy allows student to be in a group and mobilizing them to utilize a large space
where data, information, and key points (essential to a deeper understanding of a lesson) are
scattered. Students are able to perform small group discussion as they meet along their gallery
walking and will help a teacher lessen his/her talking for all needed and essential information
can be found within the scattered information in a form of images/ photos, essential questions,
etc.

5. Think Aloud; Word War- Block Buster; Capsule Vocabulary; Word Hunt
These are vocabulary strategies, aiming for students to define and uncover meanings
and definition of unfamiliar words through context clues, affixes, recall, or even the literal way of
finding a definition through the use of a dictionary and allowing students to own the words by
using them in a sentence or during conversations.

6. Anticipation Guide
This is a strategy that permits students to explore their own thoughts and opinions on a
certain topic by completing a guide in a matrix form containing questions (taken from the topic)
which can be answered by the word “agree” or “disagree”. The questions found in the guide are
leading towards the content of the topic.

7. Role Playing-Tableau; Playlet; Skit;

The traditional way of extracting appreciation and understanding of stories and other
literary genres, where students are bound for portraying roles and characters which leads to
their personal realization of what these literature means. This encompasses speech mastery;
projection, and effective communication to audience. Mastery of this craft allows a student to
develop a sense of self esteem and liking of realistic world.

8. Differentiation according to Situation

A flexible strategy which enables both the teacher and student to choose the most
suitable activity or instruction to use, which is basing from the arising situation at hand. But this
is quite risky for it does not guarantee that all students will be benefited by the activity, for not all
students have alike situations unless a consensus and intensive supervision is applied.
9. Small and Big Group Discussion
One of the easiest and traditional strategy that a teacher may use for teaching-learning
process. This allows students to validate their thoughts and ideas out of their peer’s ideas within
a small group conversation/ brainstorming, which will be validated and presented after, in a
bigger group (whole class).

10. Reflection and Analysis through Written and Oral Presentation

A strategy that comes either written or oral form. Written like composition, essays,
poems, and prose. Oral like; recitation, panel discussion, debate and the like. This extracts
students personal reflection and analysis from a given text or topic which hits the being and
realization of a student.

11. Graphic Organizer

A strategy that a teacher may use for extracting comprehension out of a given literature/
text. Easy and efficient for those students who easily loses their interest and get bored when
confronted with stories bulky with text. A simple way to summarize a story using its elements.

12. Team Games

A strategy that provides a competitive game comprised of guidelines and a point-system
activity, provoking students not to lose and win by producing possible information from what is
being asked of them.

14. Direct Instruction

A teacher-centered strategy that allows students to just sit then analyze what the teacher
says. The teacher facilitates everything while the students perform unless they are told to do
so.

15. Experimental Learning

Differentiated strategy that allows a teacher to provide real world situations and letting
students see its significance to their own out of a given experimental activity.

16. Guided Strategy

This may come in a form of written or oral (visualization), \the teacher guides students
on what to do then let them do the rest when they finally get the idea of the whole presented
activity. Students visualize what the teacher is saying without using images and photos but
instead description of things, person, events, or even situation.

17. Integrated Learning Strategy

Using other discipline/ subject area in presenting a topic, this makes the students see
the connection between different subject areas.

18. Sound Scape

Using visualization strategy to mimic and produce desired sounds out of a given literary
text like stories and plays. This is an effective way to deepen students understanding on the
topic not only through visuals but through resonance/ sounds.

19. Oral Reading

Whether group or individually done, this strategy centers on the significance of reading
and its effect on the reader. This is done orally to determine the speech, peripheral, and
auditory sense of a student out of the way he/she reads.

20. Journal Log

A simple way for longer retention and interest on topics given. Aside from journal entries/
logs keep a student in touch with past discussed lessons, it help him/her to look forward to other
topics as far as the subject is concerned. It’s as if he/ she’s keeping a track record of his/her
growth or development in the subject matter.

Prepared:

MR. KYLE RANDALL B. PATO

Grade Eight English Subject Teacher