Choosing an Instructional Strategy

7th Grade Language ArtsStrategy Objective Example

Expository Instruction The objective is to acquire new information.

Student objective is to express an understanding of the writing process by writing clear, coherent, and focused essays.

Write an organized 500 – 800 word essay in which two examples are given to describe where thoughts come from.

Direct Instruction The objective is to learn a well-defined body of knowledge.

Student objective is to illustrate their knowledge in identifying and understanding comparisons.

Review with students the understanding of analogies and how they function as comparisons of the similar aspects between two different things. State to students how metaphors and similes also function as comparisons. Verbally explain to students how metaphors use descriptive phrases to imply comparisons. Provide several examples and then ask students to create a metaphor to compare the “waves of an ocean” to something descriptive in nature. Verbally explain how students can transfer this new knowledge to creating similes by using the words “like” and “as” in their metaphors.

Choosing an Instructional Strategy

7th Grade Language ArtsStrategy Objective ExampleService Learning

Differentiated Instruction

The objective is to modify instructional goals and strategies.

Student objective is to read and analyze (within their zone of proximal development) assigned text.

Students will identify, trace and experience the development of an author’s argument or point of view stated in an editorial regarding homelessness in the area by working in a community soup kitchen.

The objective is to promote learning through participation or simulation.

Student objective is to enhance their learning through a community service project that will help them analyze informational text.

Jigsaw assigned text readings where expert groups analyze characterization and resulting conflict between two of the main characters in JK Rowling’s “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone”. Each member of an expert group will then return to their prospective home groups to share their analysis.

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7th Grade Language ArtsStrategy Objective ExampleInquiry Instruction The objective is to conduct effective

discovery and inquiry learning.

Student objective is to acquire more effective reasoning processes in addition to their acquirement of new ideas.

Help guide students in inquiry activities based on literary criticisms through reciprocal teaching by comparing reviews of literary works and determining what influenced the reviewer.

Mastery Learning The objective is to master the content of a lesson.

Student objective is to demonstrate competence in identifying and using infinitives and participles.

Multiple Choice Quiz will be administered to students covering infinitives - Mastery will be acquired at 90% proficiency. Written Quiz will be administered to students requiring their creation of participles by adding the correct endings to base forms of verbs – Mastery will be acquired at 90% proficiency.

Choosing an Instructional Strategy

7th Grade Language ArtsStrategy Objective Example

Cooperative Learning Design a Cooperative Learning Activity where students will work together to deliver a persuasive presentation that has a clear position that includes supporting evidence and descriptive points that support the proposal.

The objective is to comprehend and integrate subject matter.

Student objective is to work together to deliver a focused and coherent presentation.

Peer Tutoring The objective is to master fundamental skills.

Student objective is to provide instruction to other students regarding the themes found in a fantasy-fiction work of literature.

Select students should provide a comfortable and effective context to struggling students that allows them to identify and analyze the themes of bravery, loyalty, friendship, and loneliness that appear in JK Rowling’s “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone”.

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7th Grade Language ArtsStrategy Objective Example

Technology-based Collaborative Learning

Students will create a wiki on different forms of written text. Students will choose a form of literature to read: short story, novel, novella, or essay. Students will then develop a report based on the reading that includes the purposes and characteristics of their chosen form.

The objective is to promote the adoption of mastery goals through technology-based collaboration.

Student objective is to post their findings and thinking processes and evaluate others’ over different forms of literature.

Computer-based Instruction

The objective is to acquire basic knowledge and skills.

Student objective is to demonstrate a knowledge of Greek, Latin, and Anglo-Saxon roots and word parts in subject-area vocabulary.

Use educational software designed to teach and quiz participants on roots and word parts by analyzing the roots, prefixes, and suffixes to understand words.

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7th Grade Language ArtsStrategy Objective Example

Hypermedia Students will identify topics for further research. They will then ask and evaluate questions in reference to those topics, before developing ideas that will lead to the systematic research of a chosen topic.

The objective is to gather and sort information.

Student objective is to examine computer-based instructional materials.

Information Literacy The objective is to encourage new knowledge construction.

Student objective is to acquire new knowledge and skills that will help them to research information.

Students will research and write a report that has been developed using a systematic research approach and uses information from a variety of resources.

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7th Grade Language ArtsStrategy Objective Example

Lower-levelQuestions

Higher-level Questions

The objective is to encourage new knowledge construction.

Student objective is to use their new knowledge to think of and name the aspects within the parts of a standard plot line.

Question students about the parts of a plot line in an autobiographical or biographical composition. Ask students to recite the order of beginning, conflict, rising action, climax, resolution, and point of view.

The objective is to recall previously-learned information.

Student objective is to express their understanding of the parts of a standard plot line.

Question students about what is needed to formulate the parts of a plot line in an autobiographical or biographical composition (characters, settings). Ask students to expand on how characters can relate to a conflict and action. Ask students to describe how setting can contribute to all parts of a plot line.

Choosing an Instructional Strategy7th Grade Language Arts

Strategy Objective ExampleHomework The objective is to encourage initial

practice for the stages of the writing process.

Student objective is to list, discuss, and graphically organize writing ideas.

Students will write two original ideas in their “Nucleus Notebook” - per day - for organization and focus prompts. Students will then select one of their ideas to discuss and place in a graphic organizer for further writing.