WALK AROUND SURVEY

Purpose:

To activate students’ prior knowledge through conversation and movement.

Description:

Walk around survey can be used as an activating or summarizing strategy.

THREE STEP INTERVIEW

Purpose:

To engage students in conversation for the purpose of analyzing and synthesizing new information.

Description:

The three step interview is a cooperative structure that help students personalize their learning and listen to and appreciate the ideas and thinking of others.

IN THE HOT SEAT

Purpose:

To motivate students learning.

Description:

In this activity, several students will be asked to sit in the

“HOT SEAT” and answer questions related to the topic of study.

COGNITIVE STRATEGIES

RAFTPurpose:

To engage student learning through analysis and synthesis of information.

Description:

Using this strategy students will take on the role of someone or something related to the topic of study. They will then generate a product for a designated audience.

R – role of the writer

A – audience to whom the product is being directed

F – format of the product being created

T – topic of the product.

DUMP AND CLUMPPurpose:

To provide a step by step process for organizing thinking

and facilitating learning of new and difficult material.

Description:

This is a great strategy to use when the students are

faced with learning new and difficult information.

COLLABORATIVE L ISTENING AND VIEWING GUIDE (CLVG)

Purpose:

To help students learn from visual information.

Description:

The CLVG is a lesson framework to help students learn

from information observed and/or heard.

3 X 3 VOCABULARYPurpose:

To promote the development of complete sentences as

well as the identification of relationships between concepts.

Description:

In this activity, students will take related words, ideas, and

concepts and combine them together in sentences.