Slide 1 - What are Strategies?

Slide 2 - Videos of Strategies in Classrooms

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• Click here to watch video #2
• Click here to watch video #3
• Click here to watch video #4

Slide 3 - Features of Strategies

• Provide ample opportunities for students to use strategies
• Use scaffolding techniques consistently throughout the lesson
• Use a variety of question types including those that promote higher order thinking skills throughout the lesson.

Slide 4 - Activities for Strategies

• Read –Aloud, Think and Summarize
• Take Your Position
• Exit Tickets
• Ask a Clarifying Question
• Learn to Define the Word
• Concept ladder
• Verbally Scaffolding for Higher-Order Questions
• Academic Conversation Sentence Frames
• Differentiating Student Products

Slide 5 - Examples of Activities for Strategies

• Click here for a list of Strategies
• Click here for Exit Ticket Strategy
• Click here to watch Questioning Strategy
• Ask Clarifying Questions

Slide 6 - More Examples of Activities for Strategies

• Concept Ladder
• Students place a word wall word at either the top or the bottom of a ladder image. In each
• successive part of the ladder, students fill in information about a different aspect of the word,
• e.g., what is it like, what is it opposite of, where is it found, how is it used.
• Academic Conversation Sentence Frames
• Click here to watch a video on Differentiation