Your students will LOVE this and you will work LESS! The will also remember what they have learned using this strategy!
- Divide your class in groups of 4, using break-out rooms or in your classroom by just forming distanced groups!
- Distribute one note card to each member of the group identifying each person’s unique role:
- Summarizer
- Questioner
- Clarifier
- Predictor
- Have students read a few paragraphs of the assigned text selection. Encourage them to use note-taking strategies such as selective underlining or sticky-notes to help them better prepare for their role in the discussion.
- At the given stopping point, the Summarizer will highlight the key ideas up to this point in the reading.
- The Questioner will then pose questions about the selection:
- Unclear parts
- Puzzling information
- Connections to other concepts already learned
- The Clarifier will address confusing parts and attempt to answer the questions that were just posed.
- The Predictor can offer predictions about what the author will tell the group next or, if it’s a literary selection, the predictor might suggest what the next events in the story will be.
- The roles in the group then switch one person to the right, and the next selection is read. Students repeat the process using their new roles. This continues until the entire selection is read.
- Throughout the process, the teacher’s role is to guide and nurture the students’ ability to use the four strategies successfully within the small group. The teacher’s role is lessened as students develop skill.
Source: Reading Rockets
Are you willing to try this?!
Dual coding is combining words and visuals such as pictures, diagrams, graphic organizers, cartoons, simple drawings with labels, infographics, etc.
The idea is to provide two different representations of the information, both visual and verbal, to help students understand the information better.
Keep it simple: combining more than two types of multimedia can be detrimental for your students. Combine visuals with text OR words, video with audio, video with text OR words.
When you teach this way, students have two ways of understanding and remembering the information later on. When you don’t, make sure to explain to your students that it might help to draw something with your explanations.
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Educational Neuroscience 