Instructional Strategies Cues Questions Advance Organizers Nonlinguistic Representations

Instructional Strategies • Cues, Questions & Advance Organizers • Nonlinguistic Representations Presenters: n Erin Compton & Sandra Beck

Cues, Questions & Advance Organizers (Chapter 10) n Help students retrieve what they already know about a topic. n Examples on pp. 10. 4 -10. 7

Advance Organizers Another way teachers can help students use their background knowledge to learn new information. n Advance organizers differ from summaries/overviews in that they attempt to bridge the gap between what the learners already know and what they need to know before they can successfully learn the task at hand. n

Advance Organizers 1. 2. 3. 4. Should focus on what is important as opposed to what is unusual. “Higher-level” AOs produce deeper learning Are most useful with information that is not well organized. Different types of AOs produce different results.

Types of AOs n Expository n Narrative n Skimming n Illustrated

Nonlinguistic Representation n Linguistic Mode n Related to meaning in language. n Imagery Mode n Expressed as mental pictures or physical sensations.

Types of nonlinguistic representation n Graphic organizers n Drawing pictures n Making models n Generating mental pictures

Classroom Practice 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Provide students with graphic organizers. Provide students with the strategy of using pictures and pictographs to represent new information and ideas. Provide students with the strategy of creating mental pictures of information and ideas. Have students use or create concrete representations (manipulatives) of information and ideas. Engage students in kinesthetic activity.

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