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Thinking Strategies
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1. ACTIVATE
Think Aloud
⚙️Brainstorming / Asking Questions
Interpreting Pictures / Visualizing
⚙️Quick Writes
⚙️Anticipation Guides
⚙️Predicting Tasks
Cloze Passages
⚙️ A to Z
2. ANTICIPATE
⚙️Text Structures
Word Origins, Roots & Affixes
Frayer Model
Word Sort
Concept Definition Map
Semantic Feature Chart
⚙️Vocabulary Self-Awareness
3. ACQUIRE AND EXTRACT
Think/Pair/Share
⚙️Close Reading
Annotating / Talking to the Text
Say Something
Reciprocal Teaching
Somebody...Wanted...But...So
SQ3R / Cornell Notes
⚙️Thinking Organizers
Double Entry Response
Carousel
4. DELIBERATE AND CHALLENGE
Questioning the Author
Graffiti / Placemat
Debate Structures
If...Then...So What?
Venn Diagram
This is About / This is Really About
Fact vs Opinion
Challenge the Explanation
⚙️Consider Perspectives
Evaluate the Source
5. CONSOLIDATE
Collaboration & Discussion Structures
Writing, Journals & Exit Slips
Advocacy, Presentation and Project Templates
Choiceboards & Menus
⚙️Criteria, Checklists & Reflection
Thinking Strategies
HOME
1. ACTIVATE
Think Aloud
⚙️Brainstorming / Asking Questions
Interpreting Pictures / Visualizing
⚙️Quick Writes
⚙️Anticipation Guides
⚙️Predicting Tasks
Cloze Passages
⚙️ A to Z
2. ANTICIPATE
⚙️Text Structures
Word Origins, Roots & Affixes
Frayer Model
Word Sort
Concept Definition Map
Semantic Feature Chart
⚙️Vocabulary Self-Awareness
3. ACQUIRE AND EXTRACT
Think/Pair/Share
⚙️Close Reading
Annotating / Talking to the Text
Say Something
Reciprocal Teaching
Somebody...Wanted...But...So
SQ3R / Cornell Notes
⚙️Thinking Organizers
Double Entry Response
Carousel
4. DELIBERATE AND CHALLENGE
Questioning the Author
Graffiti / Placemat
Debate Structures
If...Then...So What?
Venn Diagram
This is About / This is Really About
Fact vs Opinion
Challenge the Explanation
⚙️Consider Perspectives
Evaluate the Source
5. CONSOLIDATE
Collaboration & Discussion Structures
Writing, Journals & Exit Slips
Advocacy, Presentation and Project Templates
Choiceboards & Menus
⚙️Criteria, Checklists & Reflection
More
HOME
1. ACTIVATE
Think Aloud
⚙️Brainstorming / Asking Questions
Interpreting Pictures / Visualizing
⚙️Quick Writes
⚙️Anticipation Guides
⚙️Predicting Tasks
Cloze Passages
⚙️ A to Z
2. ANTICIPATE
⚙️Text Structures
Word Origins, Roots & Affixes
Frayer Model
Word Sort
Concept Definition Map
Semantic Feature Chart
⚙️Vocabulary Self-Awareness
3. ACQUIRE AND EXTRACT
Think/Pair/Share
⚙️Close Reading
Annotating / Talking to the Text
Say Something
Reciprocal Teaching
Somebody...Wanted...But...So
SQ3R / Cornell Notes
⚙️Thinking Organizers
Double Entry Response
Carousel
4. DELIBERATE AND CHALLENGE
Questioning the Author
Graffiti / Placemat
Debate Structures
If...Then...So What?
Venn Diagram
This is About / This is Really About
Fact vs Opinion
Challenge the Explanation
⚙️Consider Perspectives
Evaluate the Source
5. CONSOLIDATE
Collaboration & Discussion Structures
Writing, Journals & Exit Slips
Advocacy, Presentation and Project Templates
Choiceboards & Menus
⚙️Criteria, Checklists & Reflection
4. DELIBERATE AND CHALLENGE
In this phase of a lesson plan or unit, we are seeking to provoke students to DELIBERATE on and CHALLENGE key ideas they are encountering.
In this phase, we might expect to see one or more of the following:
- Infer and construct meaning
- Analyze, solve problems, manipulate info and reflect
- Judge, reason, and consider perspectives
- Evaluate sources for biases, reliability and integrity
Click on these links to explore Thinking Strategies that can be used to DELIBERATE AND CHALLENGE:
Questioning the Author
Graffiti/Placemat
Debate Structures
If...Then...So What?
Venn Diagram
This is About/ This is Really About
Fact vs Opinion
Challenge the Explanation
Consider Perspectives
Evaluate the source
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