TEACHING TACTICS TOOL KIT

Pre-Instructional Activities

PREP Pre Reading Plan:

Peri-Instructional Activities 

 ReQuest: Reciprocal Questioning to Read for Comprehension With Integrated VSS component

Post-Instructional Activities

Group Mapping Activity: Extension By Writing And Assessment Tool.

 PREP Pre Reading Plan:

PREP stands for Pre Reading Plan: it’s a method developed in 1982 to generate ideas and interest, engaging students prior knowledge to connect them to the new topic. THIS topic is how we go about learning through text , so while a pre-reading strategy is a bit… recursive its also very necessary. While I believe in advanced students will take something away from this lesson, its most critical target audience is those who have previously had difficulty learning through text.

1)      Brainstorming

The formula for PreP begins with the words “Tell me what comes into your head when I say…” and in this case the words should be something like “How do I learn?”. The odds are most students will not have given this must thought and the answers will come back “Reading, Listening, watching TV, doing stuff,”. In prep, what you do at this point is write their thoughts all over the board .

2)      Expansion of Initial thoughts

Some of the suggestions will have more relevance to this lesson than others, and this is the point where you can focus student attention on these. Where you see a thought on the right track but not fully articulated, this is the time to fish with a question like “what made you think of that?”. Don’t condescend.. they may have genuinely new and useful ideas …if so, praise them, grab the idea and publish  it with thanks to the student.

3)      Revision of knowledge

During this third and final phase, hopefully the teacher gently nudges a largely student lead discussion 

Pre-Reading Plan (PreP) from: "Just Read Now" , a project of the Beacon Learning Center

(an online resource center offering curriculum resources based on Florida's Sunshine State Standards.)

Pre-Reading Plan (PreP) from : An Online Teachers Toolbox by Emu

(an individuals site on a free website provider, but nicely don)

 ReQuest: Reciprocal Questioning to Read for Comprehension With Integrated VSS component

1)     Pre-read the text and prepare GOOD questions (several articles have models of questions) 

2)     Instruct the students to read a short passage and re-read along with them

3)     Have the students ask you questions on the short passage

4)     Ask the students good questions about the passage (modeling good questioning)

 a)  If applicable to the passage,   Nominate/ have students nominate a word for vocabulary lists

        1)ask what students *think* the word means

        2) identify the importance of the word

Repeat steps 2 through 5.

6) return to vocabulary list and remove and strike a consensus of which to discard and which to take home an study.

Reciprocal Reading Strategy From :SEDL Southwest Educational Development Laboratory 

( private, not-for-profit education R&D corporation based in Austin, Texas.)

Guided Reciprocal Peer Questioning From: NISE ,National Institute for Science Education

(funded by the National Science Foundation for five years from 1996-2001)

Group Mapping Activity: Extension By Writing And Assessment Tool.

1) prepare "dummy maps"

2)Instruct students to map their perceptions

3) pair share map discussion

4) Model and encourage questions that promotes student extension of thinking.

5) review dummy maps to gains a better insight as to the class.

Group Mapping Activity (GMA) from: ET&L

(stands for Educational Technology and Learning)