Textbook Takeaways

✤ Willie Mayoral

TED 633
Five distinct
steps for
question asking
Stage 1 : Prepare the Question

Stage 2: Present the Question

Stage 3: Prompt Student Responses

Stage 4: Process Student Responses

Stage 5: Reflect on Questioning Practice

I really enjoyed this because this was a good foundation for figuring

out the best way to ask my students questions.These are also not

impinge simply question and response, we are looking to formulate

thought provoking questions.

Retellings

✤ This is a focus on oral language

✤ This is a way of us retelling

stories to our students so they
can better understand
Whip Around

✤ Teacher poses a question or

task. Once students make a list
then we go around checking
off what everyone has made on
their own lists. Activity does
not finish until everyones idea
or input has been said
Frayer Method

✤ The Frayer Model is a visual

organizer which students can
use to better understand and
expand their vocabulary

✤ This is a good way for students

to break up units, and be able
to save key words and have
reference points of
understanding
Collaborative
strategic
reading
✤ This is a group strategy in which students are
broken up into heterogenous groups and work
together to analyze text

✤ Leader: Decides what to read and the strategy to

use next ‘

✤ Clunk Expert: Leads groups through the four-

word identification/decoding strategies '

✤ Gist Expert: Guides the discussion around the

important people, places, and things '

✤ Announcer or MC: Ensures that all contribute to

the process by calling on individuals to read or
share their thinking '

✤ Encourager: Provides feedback and

encouragement
Summary
Writing

✤ This is a fall back to retellings

✤ After a section or unit is

completed, we will get our
students to write a short
retelling of the information that
they have learned so we can
see what knowledge they have
retained.
Performance
Learning

✤ This is a form of cumulative

assessment in which students
use physical performance to
convey their understanding of
certain materials with visual or
performance pieces
Cloze
Procedure

✤ This is a technique that can be

applied to tests. We give
students a passage of
individual text, but remove key
words. When testing we want
students to fill in the key
words that they have been
learning thought the unit.
Dioramas

✤ This is something that was

done throughout elementary
school and I see a big fall off in
high school. In application to
english, dioramas are great
ways for our students to
express to us visually what
they are learning and give
them a creative way to do so
E-Portfolio

✤ This is a great way for student

to keep a catalogue of finished
work and assignments. Once
finishing my adult ed
credential I realized the value
and importance of academic
portfolios.
Final Takeaway

✤ “Active Learning and Engagement Strategies” is a book full of

information on teaching strategies. This is a great book for
adding more tools for instructional activities. It is something that
can be referenced back to every year to change up instruction.

✤ “Checking for Understanding” is a text book that I think that I

will be able to reference often to vary my process of evaluation.
This takes us from watching our students in action all the way to
testing. It is something we always look over as teachers and
something that needs to varied for our students and ourselves as
teachers.
References

Fisher, D., & Frey, N. (2014). Pages 17,33,37,66,80,91,100,132. In Checking for Understanding: Formative Assessment Techniques for Your Classroom. Alexandria, VA: ASCD.
Rutherford, P. (2012). Pages 17,118. In Active Learning and Engagement Strategies. Alexandria, VA: Just ASK Publications.