Questioning
Close your eyes. What are the names of the people in our group?
What are Blake, Kiersten, Emily, Megan and Cody?
The teacher administers a ______ to students before presenting new content.
What is a Preassessment?
The teacher provides students with an oral or written summary of content before presenting it. He or she also links upcoming content to past content.
What is Brief Teacher Summaries?
The teacher provides an outline of content to students before presenting it as new information. This is called _______-______ _____.
What is Teacher-Prepared Notes?
The teacher wants to create a visual representation showing the structure and organization of new content. This teacher would most likely use a ______ _________.
What is Advance Organizers?
The teacher continually has to repeat themselves to provide important information. This is called what?
The teachers uses what students _____ ___ to explain _____ _____. Specifically, the teacher provides students with a link to old knowledge for every critical aspect of new knowledge.
What is Using What Students Already Know to Cue Critical Content?
The teacher uses stories to anchor information in memory and signal to students that certain information is important. The _________ _______ of a story is also particularly useful for highlighting important relationships between different events or pieces of information.
What are Using Narrative Activities?
The teacher asks students to participate in a dramatic activity that conveys critical content. Dramatic activities can range from skits and role-playing to hand gestures and other body movements.
What is Using Dramatic Instruction to Convey Critical Content?
There are too many words to read. The student can do this to find the information that they need.
What is Skimming?
The teacher asks questions about upcoming content to pique students' curiosity and activate their prior knowledge.
The teacher pauses during the presentation of new content to highlight important points. The use of _____ ____ when presenting information helps ensure that students have sufficient opportunity to take in and process content.
What is Using Pause Time?
The teacher designs advanced organizers that identify and preview critical content for students. Advance organizers can be anything from a simple verbal cue to a classroom chart to a descriptive metaphor for the content.
What is Providing Advance Organizers to Cue Critical Content?
The teacher asks students to individually write down what they already know about an upcoming topic. After each student has created an individual list, the teacher asks students to pair up and discuss their previous knowledge and ideas. Finally, each pair shares its list and the teacher creates a whole-class list of what students already know about the upcoming content. This activity is called ____________________________?
What is What do you think you know?
The teacher speaks in Monotone and doesn't move around a lot. This teacher struggles with _______________________?
What is Using Tone of Voice, Gestures, and Body Position?
The teacher identifies those experiences that involve critical information.
What is Identifying Critical-Input Experiences?
As their name implies, ______ are activities at the very beginning of a class period that students engage in as soon as, or even before, the bell rings.
What is Bell Ringers?
Before presenting new content, the teacher has students respond to a series of statements that relate to upcoming information. After students respond to the statements, the teacher leads the class in a discussion about how students responded.
What are Anticipation Guides?
The teacher asks questions that remind students of previous content and highlight what is important in the current content.
What is Asking Questions that Focus on Critical Information?
This teacher has a hard time getting students interested in the lesson's content. They want to use an activity that grabs their attention.
What is Information Hooks?
The teacher uses a K-W-L strategy before presenting new content. The letters of K-W-L stand for _____, ___________, and _______.
What are Know, Want to Know, and Learned?
The teacher helps students make ____ ____ between content they have previously studied in class and new content by simply explaining the connections.
What are Overt Linkages?
The teacher uses storyboards, graphic organizers, and pictures to highlight critical information, help students create mental pictures of the information, and promote comprehension and recall.
What is Using Visual Activities?
The teacher prepares a number of words and descriptions of those words associated with the new content and presents them to students. Students try to sort the terms into categories that make sense to them.
What are Word splashes?
The teacher needs to use plain, clear language to identify and convey critical content and pace delivery. The teacher is working on ________.
What is Using Explicit Instruction to Convey Critical Content?