Using Cornell Notes- Ummekulsum Dada

Using Anticipation Guide in the Science Classroom- Arwa Dada

RIP in 7th Std. - Jumana Mohammed

Using Cornell Notes- Arwa Dada

Mini Workshop on Principles of Learning at Partapur

This workshop was conducted by Mr Haresh, Mr Rajabali, Mr Chandresh and Mr. M Hatim Kausarali for teachers at their school.

Reading Strategies

Here are some of the reading strategies we discussed in the last training:

Pre-reading

• An anticipation guide is a comprehension strategy that is used before reading to activate students' prior knowledge and build curiosity about a new topic. Before reading, students listen to or read several statements about key concepts presented in the text; they're often structured as a series of statements with which the students can choose to agree or disagree. Anticipation guides stimulate students' interest in a topic and set a purpose for reading. Here is a link where you can read more about anticipation guides and a template you can download and print
• KWL is intended to be an exercise for a study group or class that can guide you in reading and understanding a text.You can adapt it to working alone, but discussions definitely help.It is composed of only three stages that reflect a worksheet of three columns with the three letters:

  What we Know	what we  Want to know	what we Learned

During Reading

• Jigsaw is a cooperative learning strategy that enables each student of a "home" group to specialize in one aspect of a topic (for example, one group studies habitats of rainforest animals, another group studies predators of rainforest animals). Students meet with members from other groups who are assigned the same aspect, and after mastering the material, return to the "home" group and teach the material to their group members. With this strategy, each student in the "home" group serves as a piece of the topic's puzzle and when they work together as a whole, they create the complete jigsaw puzzle. Here is a link that gives you easy steps to use jigsaw in your classroom and a video you can watch. 

• During popcorn reading lessons, the teacher chooses one student to begin a reading assignment. When the student reaches a stopping point, the student or the teacher randomly selects another student in class to continue reading.

• Graphic organizers help students construct meaning. Here is a really good link for graphic organizers to use in your classroom. 

Post-reading

• What Is a 3 - 2 - 1? The idea is to give students a chance to summarize some key ideas, rethink them in order to focus on those that they are most intrigued by, and then pose a question that can reveal where their understanding is still uncertain. Often, teachers use this strategy in place of the usual worksheet questions on a chapter reading, and when students come to class the next day, you're able to use their responses to construct an organized outline, to plot on a Venn diagram, to identify sequence, or isolate cause-and-effect. The students are into it because the discussion is based on the ideas that they found, that they addressed, that they brought to class.
  Students fill out a 3-2-1 chart with something like this:
  

  3 Things You Found Out
  2 Interesting Things
  1 Question You Still Have

Using Frayer's Model in the Classroom- Arwa Dada