Students

Structures

Strategies

Strategies

  Strategies serve a variety of purposes within the teaching and learning process.  Strategies are the ways that students process, organize and work with information in order to demonstrate learning.  Instructional strategies are the ways teachers help students to process these important concepts in deep and meaningful ways.

- Start Where They Are, Karen Hume, 2008

Contents:

§       Identifying Similarities and Differences

o     ABCs to Compare and Contrast

o     Analogy

o     Comparison Matrix

o     Comparing 2 Things

o     Venn Diagram

§       Summarizing and Note Taking

o     Drawing Conclusions

o     Key Points, Connections, and Questions

o     K, W, L Charts

o     Most Important Word

o     Most and Least Important Ideas and Information

o     REAP

o     Somebody Wanted But So (Summarizing)

o     W5 Organizer

o     Plus, Minus, Interesting – A Thinking Organizer

§       Reinforcing Effort and Providing Recognition

o     Four Corners Goal-Setting

o     Reflection Pause

o     Exit Cards

§       Homework and Practice

§       Nonlinguistic Representations

o     Cause and Effect

o     Mind Mapping

§       Cooperative Learning

o     Think / Pair / Share
Read / Pair / Share
Write / Pair / Share

o     Jigsaw

§       Setting Objectives and Providing Feedback

§       Generating and Testing Hypotheses
Questions, Cues, and Advance Organizers

o     Anticipation Guide

o     Making Judgments

o     Say Something

o     It Says – I Say – And So

o     Probable Passage

o     Inferring

o     The Frayer Model

o     Extending Vocabulary

o     Q Chart