Verbal CFU Strategies
What strategy involves randomly calling on students to ensure everyone is engaged?
What is Cold Calling?
What written strategy requires students to answer a question before leaving class?
What is Exit Ticket?
What strategy has students move to a corner of the room based on their answer to a question?
What is Four Corners?
What digital tool can be used for real-time polls or quizzes to quickly check for understanding?
What is Kahoot (or Mentimeter, Poll Everywhere)?
What hands-on activity involves students categorizing or matching key concepts?
What is Sorting or Matching Activities?
This strategy has students think individually, discuss with a partner, and then share with the class.
What is Think-Pair-Share?
This strategy asks students to write a brief reflection on what they have learned during class.
What is Quick Write?
This strategy asks students to stand on a line or spectrum based on how much they agree with a statement.
What is the Human Barometer?
This digital platform allows students to post responses to a shared board for collaborative feedback.
What is Padlet or Jamboard?
This strategy has students create visual representations of relationships between ideas or concepts.
What is Concept Maps?
In this strategy, the whole class answers a question aloud
What is Choral Response?
What strategy has students summarize the key points of a lesson in a timed response?
What is the One-Minute Paper?
In this strategy, students move around the room and respond to questions or problems posted on large sheets of paper.
What is the Gallery Walk?
This digital tool allows teachers to create quick quizzes that give immediate feedback to students.
What is Google Forms?
What strategy requires students to organize key ideas into the correct sequence or categories using cards?
What is Card Sorts?
This strategy requires each student to quickly share one idea or response in a round-robin style.
What is Whip Around?
In this strategy, students write their answers on whiteboards and hold them up for review.
What is Whiteboard Response?
This strategy has students stand if they agree with a statement and sit if they don’t.
What is Stand Up, Sit Down?
This platform allows real-time student responses during lessons through interactive slides and activities.
What is Pear Deck or Nearpod?
This strategy has students act out concepts or situations to demonstrate their understanding.
What is Role-Playing or Skits?
What strategy involves students discussing their understanding with a partner before sharing with the whole class?
What is Turn & Talk?
This strategy has students write 3 things they learned, 2 questions they have, and 1 thing they found interesting.
What is the 3-2-1 Strategy?
This movement-based strategy involves students physically moving to show agreement or understanding of a concept.
What is Human Barometer?
This technology-based strategy can collect and display live responses from students during a class.
What is Poll Everywhere or Mentimeter?
What hands-on activity allows students to collaborate and apply their learning through physical manipulation of objects?
What is Sorting or Matching Activities?