PRACTICE & RETRIEVAL

The power of rehearsal in practising for performance

Securing early success with supervised practice

Letting students go to practise on their own

Supporting learning with graphic organisation

Repeating and improving the quality of explanations

Increasing the level of challenge systematically

A form of synoptic questioning for uncued retrieval practice

Ensuring a high success rate and building confidence

Ensuring students maintain practice in their own time

Building from drills into more complex tasks

Ensuring children are successfully engaged in independent reading

Exploring a text in depth during reading

A choral response strategy for vocabulary development

Steps for running effective quizzing routines

Exploring schema with Why and How questions

Resources to support students' knowledge checking

Using students as resources for each other

Routine knowledge checking to reduce forgetting

Linking concrete examples to abstract ideas

A powerful method for checking understanding

A classic retrieval practice strategy

A strategy for structuring revision

A varied diet of forms of retrieval practice

Routines to engage all students in thinking

Managing students progressing at different rates

Strategies for teachers and assistants working closely