Chapter 8 - How do I help students build learning strategies?

In this chapter, Cary describes a teacher who used her passion to encourage students to learn. In order to make students independent learners, she introduced several different learning strategies to them. "She worried about the plateau kids, students who reached an intermediate fluency stage and stayed there, spinning their learning wheels, never rising to native-level English proficiency, never achieving full academic competence." Some strategies she used were:
~Use a content-to-strategy approach. Instead of targeting a certain skill and finding ways to teach that, use what you are teaching to target skills to make learning more authentic in the process.
~Name learning strategies. This helps make them explicit and memorable.
~Post the names of the strategies in the front of the room for easy reference.
Ultimately, use subjects you are passionate about and that interest the students. "With relevant topics in place," you can "decide on how best to make the topics workable for English learners...but, again, the beginning point [is] content, not skills, not strategies."

Here are some resources for learning strategies:
http://www.studygs.net/