Presenters:Presenters: Erin Compton & Erin Compton &

Sandra BeckSandra Beck

Instructional Strategies•Cues, Questions & Advance Organizers

•Nonlinguistic Representations

Cues, Questions & Advance Organizers (Chapter 10)

Help students Help students retrieve what they retrieve what they already know about a already know about a topic.topic.

Examples on pp. Examples on pp. 10.4-10.710.4-10.7

Advance Organizers

Another way teachers can help Another way teachers can help students use their background students use their background knowledge to learn new knowledge to learn new information.information.

Advance organizers differ from Advance organizers differ from summaries/overviews in that they summaries/overviews in that they attempt to bridge the gap between attempt to bridge the gap between what the learners already know what the learners already know and what they need to know and what they need to know before they can successfully learn before they can successfully learn the task at hand. the task at hand.

Advance Organizers

1.1. Should focus on what is Should focus on what is important as opposed to important as opposed to what is unusual.what is unusual.

2.2. ““Higher-level” AOs Higher-level” AOs produce deeper learningproduce deeper learning

3.3. Are most useful with Are most useful with information that is not well information that is not well organized.organized.

4.4. Different types of AOs Different types of AOs produce different results.produce different results.

Types of AOs

ExpositoryExpository NarrativeNarrative SkimmingSkimming IllustratedIllustrated

Nonlinguistic Representation

Linguistic ModeLinguistic Mode Related to meaning in Related to meaning in

language.language. Imagery ModeImagery Mode

Expressed as mental Expressed as mental pictures or physical pictures or physical sensations.sensations.

Types of nonlinguistic representation

Graphic organizersGraphic organizers Drawing picturesDrawing pictures Making modelsMaking models Generating mental Generating mental

picturespictures

Classroom Practice

1.1. Provide students with graphic Provide students with graphic organizers.organizers.

2.2. Provide students with the strategy of Provide students with the strategy of using pictures and pictographs to using pictures and pictographs to represent new information and ideas.represent new information and ideas.

3.3. Provide students with the strategy of Provide students with the strategy of creating mental pictures of information creating mental pictures of information and ideas.and ideas.

4.4. Have students use or create concrete Have students use or create concrete representations (manipulatives) of representations (manipulatives) of information and ideas.information and ideas.

5.5. Engage students in kinesthetic activity.Engage students in kinesthetic activity.

Thank you

For your time and For your time and attention!attention!