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Strategies that Work Teaching for Understanding and Engagement

Strategies that Work Teaching for Understanding and Engagement. Comprehension Strategies. Debbie Draper Curriculum Consultant (Northern Adelaide). Making Connections

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Strategies that Work Teaching for Understanding and Engagement

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  1. Strategies that WorkTeaching for Understanding and Engagement Comprehension Strategies Debbie Draper Curriculum Consultant (Northern Adelaide)

  2. Making Connections The chain links things together like making connections between more than one thing. The chain can also be used for various Venn Diagrams which show the connections between text & self, text & text and text & world.

  3. Questioning The cube represents the element of chance and not always knowing what will turn up. Cubes can also be used for questioning activities e.g. Question Matrix cubes, Comprehension Cubes and Search Cube which is a visual search engine that presents question results in the form of a 3D cube that you can then rotate and flip to search for answers in text, video and image formats.

  4. 1 = remember 2 = understand 3 = apply 4 = analyse 5 = evaluate 6 = create teachingmadeeasy.com.au

  5. Question Matrix EVENT SITUATION CHOICE PERSON RESAON MEANS PRESENT What Is? Where/ When is? Which did? Who is? Why is? How is? PAST What did? Where/ When did? Which did? Who did? Why did? How did? POSSIBILITY What can? Where/ When can? Which can? Who can? Why can? How can? PROBABILITY What would? Where/ When would? Which would? Who would? Why would? How would? PREDICTION What will? Where/ When will? Which will? Who will? Why will? How will? IMAGINATION What might? Where/ When might? Which might? Who might? Why might? How might? (C. Weiderhold ‘Co-operative Learning and Critical Thinking’ in Langrehr, Better Questions, better Thinking Book 2, Longman Cheshire, Melbourne, 1993)

  6. BETWEEN THE LINES Search for clues Inferential Interpretive Level The author meant it. Inferencing Inferring involves looking for clues and evidence within the text and combining them with your own knowledge to make informed guesses about the author’s intentions, make predictions and draw conclusions. Search for Clues http://learningplace.com.au/

  7. Visualising The digital camera is used for capturing still and video images. Visualising is like using a digital camera to imagine what is happening in a text.

  8. Determining Importance Determining Importance is like sifting material through a funnel to find the main idea, theme or author’s message in a text.

  9. Summarising & Synthesising Summarising is like taking apart a jigsaw to understand the important elements of each part. Synthesising is putting together the pieces of several jigsaws to form a new picture. http://reading-comprehension-assistance.wikispaces.com/

  10. http://www.decs.sa.gov.au/northernadelaide/pages/comp/

  11. http://www.decs.sa.gov.au/northernadelaide/pages/fsm/facilitatorsupport/http://www.decs.sa.gov.au/northernadelaide/pages/fsm/facilitatorsupport/

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