Activators & Summerizers
This is done to engage student's thinking before instruction.
What are activators?
This is the ability to identify what information is needed, understand how the information is organized, identify the best sources of information for a given need, locate those sources, evaluate the sources critically, and share that information. It is the knowledge of commonly used research techniques.
What is Information Literacy?
These strategies help students go below the surface and find the deeper meaning behind what is being read.
What is Reading for Understanding?
These tools "assist learners…[in how to visually]…organize and find patterns among the overwhelming amount of information available today, as well as to make sense out of it and evaluate."
What is a Visual Learning Tool?
This strategy goes beyond memorization and low level inference making.
What is Flexible and Deep Thinking?
With this tool, students record, collect, and organize information from a teacher, text, or additional resources.
What are Electronic Notebooks?
These increase skills in communicating through all types of writing.
What is Writer's Workshops?
This is done to not have students who think quickly dominate discussions.
What is Wait Time?
These are designed to support integration and retention of new learning.
What are summarizers?
Although the term “information literacy” is most often used by librarians, the skills associated with it are critical for living in today’s information rich _______.
What is world?
Reading for Understanding strategies help students go below the surface and find the deeper _______.
What is meaning?
Visual learning tools are also called graphic __________.
What are organizers?
Thinking Deeply and Flexibly involves open-mindedness to new thoughts and ideas, explanation, classifying, comparing and contrasting, argumentation and debate, interpretation, problem _______, creativity, decision making, planning, and the use of logic and reasoning
What is solving?
Interactive Notebooks help students to see connections, do analyses, synthesize data in interesting ways and dig this way into their learning.
What is deep?
The writing process consists of five stages — pre-writing activities, initial writing, revising, ________, and publishing.
What is editing?
Think-Pair-Share and Wait Time strategies enable more students to speak their thoughts out loud, develop answers to _________, participate in discussions, think at higher levels, and become much more involved and engaged in the learning process.
What are questions?
Activators help focus students on a goal, problem, challenge or essential question, surface student misconceptions, help students to feel some ownership of this.
What is learning?
Information literacy activities help students to identify a topic for research and formulate these.
What are questions?
Reading for Understanding strategies have been developed to improve this reading skill.
What is comprehension?
Visual learning tools also “help students collect information, make interpretations, solve problems, devise" these.
What are plans?
Interpretive discussions promote specific types of this brain function.
What is thinking?
Interactive Notebooks are a great way for students to organize these.
What are notebooks?
During a Writer's Workshop, students are treated as inspiring what?
What is an author?
Both Think-Pair-Share and Wait Times do this to the rate of discussion.
What is slow down?
Summarizers help students to draw __________ and summarize for themselves what was important, what they have learned, how it is important, and/or how it fits with what they already know.
What are conclusions?
This group of teachers uses the term "information literacy" the most.
What are Librarians?
The Read for Understanding strategy Survey, Question, Read, Recite, Review is commonly known as this acronym.
What is SQ3R?
Visual Learning tools can include mind maps, webs, decision trees, analysis charts, before and after reading charts, and story ______.
What are maps?
This profession should know a wide variety of thinking strategies that encourage different types of thinking, and how to use them with their students.
What are teachers?
Interactive Notebooks usually have one side for creative thoughts and another for recording and collecting this.
What is information?
During Writer's Workshops, students are encouraged to share their writing and do this with peers.
What is conference?
Think-Pair-Share and Wait Times allow the students to become much deeper at this skill.
What is thinking?