Instructional+Strategies

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Checking for Understanding

 * 1) 3 - 2 - 1
 * This activity helps structure students’ responses to an activity, a reading or a film. It provides an easy way for teachers to check for understanding and to gauge students’ interest in a topic. Sharing 3-2-1 responses can also be an effective way to prompt a class discussion or to review material from the previous lesson.
 * 1) Collaborative Pairs
 * Collaborative Pairs allows students the opportunity to discuss and talk about new learning (it’s hard to get lost in a pair) and is used as a procedure for refocusing after students have reflected on the acquired knowledge. Research shows that learning is first a social activity before it is a cognitive activity.
 * 1) Think - Ink - Pair - Share
 * The Think-Ink-Pair-Share activity is an excellent prior knowledge activity that helps students to focus their thoughts on specific topic. Students are given a question or topic and are asked to first think about what they know, then record their ideas down, pair up with someone to share what they wrote. The final stage is a large group discussion.

Reading Analysis

 * 1) A.R.T.I.S.T.
 * A.R.T.I.S.T. is a method of primary source analysis that allows students to process information in a written or visual source of a historic nature.
 * 1) Deepening Literacy: Text to Self; Text to Text; Text to World
 * Reading comes alive when we make connections beyond the text itself. This is a skill that can be practiced and learned.