Instructional Practices to Support ALL Learners:

Supporting Rehearsal, Elaboration, and Organization of Key Content in Your Lessons

Objectives: You will be able to: Describe instructional techniques for

supporting rehearsal, elaboration, and organization of key contentCornell Notes: Rehearse and ElaborateGraphic Representations: Organize and see

relationships Use signal words and expository text structures

to inform note-taking organizers (you or your students create)

Seminar: Share example(s) of how these techniques might be useful in your discipline

Instructional Practices to Support Learners

1. Rehearsal: Determining important ideas (vs. Drive-by Reading) and summarizing

Judgment and Decision Making Text-marking & note-taking

2. Elaboration: Making connections; generating questions; visualizing; interpreting; transforming

Clarify understanding and personal your message Retell > paraphrase > summarize > synthesize Quick writes, text coding, double entry journals

3. Organization: Noting relationships between ideas Pyramid notes, text frames, graphic representations

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Supporting Rehearsal and Elaboration of Key Content

Cornell Notes1. Document with Notes2. Jot down Key Points3. Summarize4. Study

http://coe.jmu.edu/learningtoolbox/cornellnotes1.html

Supporting Organization of Key Content with Graphic Organizers

Problem-Solution for Science Report (science news: problem solution; your thoughts; key words)

Problem-Solution for History Text (who; problems; what changes affected these people; what did they do to solve their problem)

Quick Sketch of Chemical Reactions (draw a picture of each step of the process as a cycle or cause/effect)

Organizing Ideas in Math

Using Graphic Organizers to Represent Relationship Between Key Ideas Five common informational text structures?

Corresponding “signal words”?

Enumeration Time Sequence Compare/Contrast

Cause/Effect

Problem/Solution

Signal Words (Mortar)

How can we teach students to recognize these signal words and use them to organize their notes in ways that connect key ideas?

Signal Words (the mortar that links the bricks together)

How can you teach students to recognize these signal words and use them to

organize their notes in ways that connect key ideas?

Can You Identify (And Help Your Students Identify) Examples of Common Expository Text Structures? See your handout

EnumerationTime OrderComparison-ContrastCause-EffectProblem Solution

Time Order JFKSignal words: • Specific dates• After • It wasn’t until

Freedom of Religion

EnumerationSignal words: • several points• one point • finally

CastlesCompare & Contrast

Signal words: • for X, not Y • in spite of• except for• Not only

FireCause-Effect

Signal words: • was started by• left by • before it was…• as a result • were all that remained

Price of OilProblem-Solution

Signal words: • created a serious problem • responded to.. by • this resulted in • they began… and discovered…

Seminar: Applying Instructional Techniques to Your Content

Share a technique that can help support students’ rehearsal, elaboration, and organization of content you plan to cover in your lesson plan assignment.

Identify a feature of this technique that would be especially useful for supporting struggling readers and/or English language learners.

HomeworkCHANGE IN SEQUENCE ON SYLLABUS! Next: Using Assessments To Guide Learning Read:

Tovani, Ch. 8 All These Sticky Notes #16 Guskey: The rest of the story.