TeHandout number 5

TEACHING STRATEGIES

1. To gather per assessment data

  1. 8 square or 4 square
  2. VIQ or VIP
  3. Stand up or sit down
  4. Find someone who

2.To access prior knowledge

  1. Three column charts
  2. K W L H
  3. Knew? New?
  4. Fast Write
  5. Fast Draw
  6. Predict-sketch
  7. Imagery
  8. Word walls
  9. Who Am I? or What am I? (number or science facts)
  10. Use literature (ex= Quick as a Cricket for similes or Fred Gwynne books for homonyms)

3. To Increase interaction

  1. Share around the clock/seasons
  2. Inside/outside circle
  3. Numbered heads
  4. Think-pair-share
  5. TAIM Tell all in a minute
  6. Learning teammates
  7. Cued retell
  8. Line-ups
  9. Rally robin
  10. ABC carousel
  11. 1 to 10
  12. Poetry in a pocket
  13. Readers theatre
  14. Jig saw reading/ math
  15. Marginal notes
  16. List-group-label
  17. Jumpstart
  18. Skeleton outline
  19. Author/expert chair
  20. 2 word pyramid (4-6-8)
  21. Tea party or buzz group
  22. Timed pair share
  23. 4 S brainstorming (Sultan of silly, speed captain, sergeant support, synergy guru)
  24. Pair share/ group share
  25. Similarity groups or Opposite groups
  26. Clock or season buddies
  27. Musical raps, jazz chants, songs
  28. Gossip hunts
  29. Interest hunts
  30. What’s my answer? What’s my question?
  31. We are the world- what do we have in common?
  32. Picture files and realia
  33. Pantomime a tale
  34. Good news/bad news
  35. Literature circles
  36. Grab bag

4.To check for understanding

  1. Paraphrase passport
  2. Chunk and chew
  3. Sketch to stretch
  4. Signal cards
  5. Matrix
  6. Stick names
  7. 4 Quads
  8. Question spinners
  9. Find my rule
  10. Telephone
  11. Teach text backwards
  12. THIEVES (title, headings, intro, every 1st, visuals/vocabulary, end, summary)
  13. ABC summary
  14. Web of understanding (yarn)
  15. Information gap
  16. Fry graph for estimating readability (also Gunner or Powers/Sumner/Kearl formula)
  17. Guiding questions (agree/disagree)
  18. Decision time (never happen, could happen, certain to happen)
  19. Questioning the author/teacher/presenter

5.Using graphic organizers

Hierarchical

Branching, mind maps, structured overviews, network tree

Conceptual

Venn diagrams, overlapping circles, spider map, clustering, compare/contrast matrix, problem/solution outline, targeting,

Web of understanding

Sequential

Series of events chains. Chaining, continuum scale, fishbone, flip books, pop up books, cause and effect, plot diagram, herringbone

Cyclical

Cycle, round the space, star, thesaurus-at-a-glance,

6.To increase thinking skills

  1. Bloom’s taxonomies
  2. Rethinking thinking: Kagan
  3. Explicit questioning
  4. Wait time
  5. Unpack your thinking
  6. Putting the house in order
  7. Shoes
  8. Fact/opinion
  9. Relevant/irrelevant
  10. Reliable/Unreliable
  11. Zoology
  12. W spinners (would, will, where, when, who, which)

7.To summarize learning or closure activities

  1. Clink/clunk
  2. Rotating review or round robin
  3. Hot potato
  4. 3-2-1
  5. Concise language (2-4-6-8)
  6. Spinner
  7. Role play
  8. Peer coaching
  9. Cued retell
  10. Thumbs up/down
  11. Response boards
  12. Journals or learning logs
  13. Foldables
  14. Experience charts
  15. Graphic organizers
  16. PowerPoint’s
  17. Video clips
  18. Slide shows
  19. Save the last word for me
  20. Story boards
  21. Draw what you saw (in your mind)
  22. Strategy list think

8.Repetitive review

  1. Whirlwind theory
  2. Poems on hangers/pockets (also math/science facts)
  3. Patterned partner
  4. Echoes
  5. Popcorn repeating
  6. Mumble read
  7. Think-alouds
  8. 4 corners
  9. Folded value lines
  10. Concentration games
  11. Build a sentence word list
  12. Skim/scan/summary
  13. Shooting Hoops

9. To help comprehension or comprehensible input

  1. Read/cover/remember/retell
  2. Tarzan/Jane talk
  3. Fraction wheel or word wheel or fact wheel
  4. ABC summary
  5. Concept or schema maps
  6. SQP2RS (survey, question, predict, read, repeat, respond, summary)
  7. PENS (Preview, explore, notes, see if correct)
  8. GIST (skim and get the main idea)
  9. TPRT- total physical response
  10. Brain dance
  11. Thematic units/lessons
  12. Scaffolding (support, adapt, provide, withdraw)
  13. Reflective journal
  14. T chart
  15. Paper plate fish/ skeleton
  16. Convince me

10.Alternatives to Round Robin reading

  1. Echoic reading
  2. Choral reading
  3. Impress reading
  4. Paired reading
  5. Readers’ theatre
  6. Inquiry reading
  7. Break in reading
  8. It’s all how you phase it
  9. Divided story reading
  10. Group reading
  11. Perfect reading days
  12. Dialogue reading
  13. Four corner reading
  14. CTA (connect context-text-application)
  15. BDA (before, during, after reading)

11.Assessment methods

SAT ACT, UPPAS, UBSCT, DWA Writing, CRT (reading, lang arts. math and science), Iowa Basic, and NWEA. UAA (lang arts/math), NAEP reading (writing, reading, math, science), NRT (lang arts, math, science, social studies), SOLOM (student oral language observation matrix), IPT (idea proficiency test, UAPLA (Utah academic language proficiency assessment), LAS (Language assessment scale)

  1. Traditional options- formal
  2. Multiple choice
  3. True/false
  4. Matching
  5. Short answers
  6. Essay questions
  7. Reports
  8. Special projects
  9. Fill in the blank
  10. Cloze
  11. Traditional options- informal
  12. Interviews
  13. Observations
  14. Running records
  15. Presentations
  16. Journals
  17. Learning logs
  18. Questioning
  19. Anecdotal records
  20. Creative options- authentic assessment
  21. Cooperative projects
  22. Interactive journals
  23. Portfolios
  24. Open ended questions/activities (ex =create a creature)
  25. Debates
  26. Performance based tasks (music, oral, theatre (skits, plays, and readers’ theatre), and demonstrations. Science fair projects)
  27. Use of visuals (art, bulletin boards, PowerPoint’s, library research, technology uses)
  28. Non verbal communication options
  29. Graphic organizers