Strategy Coupled with Learning Activity

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Strategy Coupled With Learning Activity

These are all things that you can reference on your “DO” step!

1. IDENTIFYING SIMILARITIES AND DIFFERENCES

• Thinking maps (SR –k)
• Sketch to stretch (SR-k)
• Skill similarities between Sports and Activities (PE)
• Fraction bars
• Number lines
• Compare and order fractions and whole numbers
• Attribute matrix
• Tree maps
• Double Bubble maps
• Venn Diagrams
• Affinity Diagram
• Card sorts
• Frayer Model
• QAR
• Bridge Map
• Brace Map
• What’s my rule? (Dan Muligan)
• T Chart
• 4 Square vocab. Page for math vocab.
• Listening
• Classifying
• Organizer
• Gallery Walk to see students products
• Affinity Diagram (students move to groups)
• Classifying cups

1. SUMMARIZING AND NOTE-TAKING

• 8 Important words (SR 5)
• Problem solving template
• Interactive Notebook (SR 5)
• KFA in math (SR 4)
• KIM
• Main idea/detail notes
• CPA (SR 6)
• Paraphrase passport (each person must paraphrase)
• 1 2 3 Pyramid – review, restate (SR 5)
• Underlying high frequency words/amazing words (SR k)
• Outline bulleted (SR 4)
• Ask students what strategies they used in game (SR PE)
• Tree map for summarizing
• Read and sketch
• Thinking maps for characters
• Circle maps (pairs of 3, shared with group)
• Flow chart for sequencing
• Venn Diagram

1. REINFORCING EFFORT AND PROVIDING RECOGNITION

• How full is your bucket? (SR 5)
• Sweet taste of success
• Individual student data folders
• Sundaes at Micro Town halls
• Multiplication graphs showing progress
• Happy grams (given for effort and co-operation)
• Reading shout-outs (doing great in reading group)
• During whole group all students check the work of the student explaining
• Phone a friend when they are stuck on a problem
• Goal setting
• Stamp/Sticker, work through the day as kids work

1. HOMEWORK AND PRACTICE

• Encourage and exercise with family at home (SR PE)
• Feet goal to get mileage (PE)
• Monthly calendar for fitness/activities (PE)
• Your game is only as good as your practice
• Running slowly is not a character flaw, Quitting is
• Homework packet given Monday, due Friday
• Select problems gone over daily from previous day
• Homework feedback between Teacher/Parent
• Kagan strategies
• All write round robin
• Fan-N-Pick feedback (SR k)
• Provide homework with examples
• Intervention book
• Gallery walk
• Review only – no new practices
• Reading log – summary
• Tic TacTomework ( a choice of activities covering concepts learned)

1. NONLINGUISTIC REPRESENTATIONS

• Consensogram (SR 5)
• Realia - real world objects (SR k)
• Manipulatives
• Thinking maps
• Subitizing
• KIM
• Concrete Pictorial abstract CPA
• Decomposing/Composing numbers
• Multiplication Matrix
• Array Mat
• Number lines
• Fraction strips
• Bars
• Frames
• Problem solving template
• Act it our / Gesture
• Color coding as a memory clue (SR EL 4th – 6th)
• Powerpoints with pictures (SR 4)
• Word Walls
• Bead Boards
• Say it, Move it (4chips, move the chips to represent sounds in words)
• Video clips + pictures to introduce + reinforce words, ideas & concepts
• Use sign language or hand signals to reinforce skills, body movements as well.
• Motions/Gestures for vocabulary words
• Pattern blocks + fraction kits

1. COOPERATIVE LEARNING

• Teach you partner
• Think – Pair – Share
• Face to face interaction
• Round Robin brainstorming
• Pair partners for fluency practice
• Standup – Handup – Pair up
• Group processing (SR Sped)
• Inside circle – Outside circle
• Jigsaw especially in Soc. Stud. and Sci.
• Rally coach
• Quiz – Quiz trade (SR 3 )
• Teach Okay – Whole brain (SR 4)
• Numbers talk (SR 4)
• Envision Math Center Activities (SR 4)
• Dice and Dots
• Give 1 – Get 1
• Selector Tools Kagan site
• Think – Tac – Toe
• Team – Pair – Solo
• Talk talk / Number talk (SR 6 )
• Idea Wave – Red Routine
• Circle the sage
• Two facts and a fib
• Team Sports (PE)
• Trio of thought – Dan Mulligan
• Response cards for fiction
• Response cards for informational text
• Numbered Heads together
• Carousel Brain storming
• Multiplying my thinking (Dan Mulligan)
• Elbow partners
• Clock buddies
• Flexible groups in Math
• Three-step interview

1. SETTING OBJECTIVES AND PROVIDING FEEDBACK

• KWL
• PDSA Setting Objectives feedback
• Personal learning goals
• Data folders
• Students track own progress on graph for fluency to set goals
• Student goal setting with purpose
• Weekly objectives posted and reviewed + referred to
• DVQMA – AIMS conference

1. GENERATING AND TESTING HYPOTESES

• Hands on experiments
• Foss Science
• Number Talks
• Ask Higher Level Questions (SR)
• Problem of the day
• Science fair project
• Prediction of what may happen next in the story
• Think Pair Share

1. QUESTIONS, CUES AND ADVANCE ORGANIZERS

• Performance cues (SR)
• Graphic organizers
• Thinking maps
• ACE
• Anticipation guide
• KFA Math word problems (SR 5 )
• Four corners – kids move to closest answer and discuss
• Interactive notebook
• Problem solving sheet
• Multiplication windows (Array)
• PDSA
• Listening maps
• Close reading
• Predict based on pictures or photos in a story
• Vocabulary & literature webs to organize thoughts & ideas
• Picture walk

1. DEVELOPMENT OF ACACEMIC VOCABULARY

• Content words and picture cues
• Even odd
• Frac/tion
• Problem solving template
• KIM
• ACE = math practice = precision
• Word Walls
• Songs and poems with amazing words
• Real world examples that they can relate to
• Main idea / Detail/ Note taking
• Rate it
• Word Wall
• Interactive notebook
• Word of the day
• Subject specific journals (math, writing)
• Concept web using new words for the week
• Sight words, kids “I spy” in library books & stories
• Amazing words (picture clues that help to figure out words)
• Use sentences with context clues so students can figure out meaning of unknown words
• Math journals
• Word lists
• 3 min. review
• Charades