Reading and writing

• Macro Skills to develop

  • Speaking
  • Listening
  • Reading
  • Writing
  • Watching
• Ways to organize ideas

  • Enumerate
  • Select
  • Make connections
  • Eliminate
• Different ways of brainstorming

  • Freewriting
  • Listing
  • Cubing
  • Researching
• Graphic Organizers


  • T-chart
  • Flow chart
  • Fishbone
  • Concept Map
  • Venn diagram
• Cubing

  • Describe
  • Compare
  • Associate
  • Analyze
  • Apply
  • Agree or Argue