Self-Partner-Table
Here is a quick summarizing strategy to help your students collect their thoughts on what they just learned.
It takes about 5 minutes to do.
Brad Cohen
Tritt Elementary
Additional Information
February 07, 2008
January 14, 2008
Games
Here are some links to help you create games for your lessons:
http://jc-schools.net/tutorials/PPT-games/
Password, Wheel of Fortune, Jeopardy, Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, Twenty Questions, Guess the Covered Word, Hollywood Squares, Weakest Link, and BINGO.
http://teach.fcps.net/trt14/Power%20Point%20Games/power_point_games.htm
Games with instructions: Hollywood Squares, Jeopardy, Pyramid, Who wants to be a millionaire and Undercover.
December 21, 2007
6 Traits Book Selections
Great website with 6 Triats Writing Resources
Think-Pair-Share-Toolbox Strategies
It gets the name from the three stages of student action, with emphasis on what students are to be DOING at each of those stages.
Three-Minute Pause-Toolbox Strategy
The Three-Minute Pause provides a chance for students to stop, reflect on the concepts and ideas that have just been introduced, make connections to prior knowledge or experience, and seek clarification.
Three-Minute Pause Instructions:
Download three_minute_pause_instructions.pub
Three-Minute Pause Worksheet:
Ticket Out the Door-Toolbox Strategy
Students reflect on their learning on a small piece of paper and give it to the teacher on their way out the door.
Ticket Out the Door Information Sheet:
Download ticket_out_the_door_information_sheet.pub
Ticket Out the Door Slips:
Vocabulary Word Maps/Frayer Model
A vocabulary word map is a visual organizer that helps students engage with and think about new terms or concepts in several ways.
Vocabulary Word Map Instructions:
Download vocabulary_word_map_instructions.pub
Word Map Worsheet #1:
Download wordmap_worksheet_1.pdf
Word Map Worksheet #2:
Download wordmap_worksheet_2.pdf
Frayer Model Worksheet:
ABC Brainstorm/AlphaBlocks-Toolbox Strategies
Students try to think of a word or phrase associated with the topic, matched to each letter of the alphabet.
ABC Brainstorm Instructions:
ABC Worksheet
AlphaBlcoks Worksheet
Tic-Tac-Know-Toolbox Strategy
This technique is excellent for assessing the student’s understanding of related concepts in a content area.
Tic-Tac-Know Instruction Sheet:
Final Countdown-Tool Box Strategy
This activity emphasized the important role that reflection plays in the learning process. Final Countdown provides learners with a framework for reflection, evaluation, and integration of new knowledge into previously learned material.
Use this sheet for the students to do the work:
Use this sheet for the instructions:
