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Instructional Strategy Overview Worksheet 4

 

Title: Visual Creations and Reader Response

Name: Shannon Wilson

 Name of Strategy: Post Reading Activities

Source (Where did this come from?): busyteacherscafe

Link to the Strategy: http://oak.cats.ohiou.edu/~glasgow/Glasgow-activities.pdf

Give a thorough description of the strategy and how it will be implemented. This should be a summary of the strategy according to the original source: Following is a list of some of the response you can use for students. They can choose from the list and create their own project. This is a great way for students to show depth of knowledge at the end of a unit of study. While these are designed for English Language Arts, they are easily adaptable for Social Studies.

 

Associative Recollections

_ Biopoem

_ Book Review

_ Book Summary

_ Buddy Journal

_ Character Probe

_ Creating Book Jackets

_ Dependent Authors

_ Elegy

_ Freewriting

_ Focal Judgements

_ Found Poem

_ “I Am” Poem

_ Image Freewrite

_ Create An Original Metaphor

_ Poem in Two Voices

• Logical/Mathematical Intelligence

_ Character Continuum

_ Character Map

_ Film Viewing

_ Mind Map

_ Maps and Timelines

_ Map the Story Structure

_ Polar Appraisal

_ Split-

Open

Mind

• Visual/Spatial Intelligence

_ Artistic Response

_ Coat of Arms

_ Creating Book Jackets

_ Create Slide Show

_ Image Freewrite

_ Original Metaphor

_ Story Board

_ Story Portrait

• Bodily/Kinesthetic Intelligence

_ Tableau

_ Oral Presentations

_ Report Sack

• Musical/Rhythmic Intelligence

_ Performing Dance or Mime

_ Rap, Songs, Soundtracks

• Interpersonal Intelligence

_ Booktalk

_ Buddy Journal

_ Character Mapping

_ Character Probe

_ Dramatic Performance

_ Story Discussion Grid

• Intrapersonal Intelligence

_ Book Review

_ Elegy

_ Evoked Response

_ Poetic Responses

_ Polar Appraisal

 

 

Explain what part of the standard course of study is addressed by this activity:

Skill Competency Goal 2 The learner will acquire strategies to access a variety of sources, and use appropriate research skills to gather, synthesize, and report information using diverse modalities to demonstrate the knowledge acquired.

2.05 Transfer information from one medium to another such as written to visual and statistical to written.

2.06 Create written, oral, musical, visual, and theatrical presentations of social studies information.

Explain why you think this strategy will work. How does the strategy help your students learn? I think that this strategy is a great way for students to demonstrate their depth of understanding at the end of a unit of study. This strategy allows them to choose how they want to create their project and gives them freedom in constructing it. I would pare down the list above and offer them ten or so to choose from at a time.

Instructional Strategy Overview Worksheet 3

 

Title: Problem-Solution Chart

Name: Shannon Wilson

 Name of Strategy: Pre reading or During Reading

Source (Where did this come from?):    Reading Quest.org Making Sense in Social Studies

Link to the Strategy: http://www.readingquest.org/strat/problem.html

Give a thorough description of the strategy and how it will be implemented. This should be a summary of the strategy according to the original source: The Problem-Solution chart is a variation of column notes. It helps students focus on the four areas critical to problem-solving: identifying the problem, listing the consequences or results of that problem, isolating the causes, and proposing solutions. It is a great tool to use in social studies, but you can imagine how it might be every bit as useful in areas such as science or literature. A Problem-Solution chart offers a way to visually organize the distinct components of problems toward educative ends. Because it uses a format based on column notes, students can readily understand its layout and function. Students (or the teacher) will first identify a problem; the effects or consequences of that problem are then listed. Students then brainstorm all the possible causes of that problem and also come up with solutions to the problem.

Explain what part of the standard course of study is addressed by this activity:

The skills that this activity uses are not just for Middle Grades, but for all of Social Studies.

Skill Competency Goal 1 The learner will acquire strategies for reading social studies materials and for increasing social studies vocabulary.

1.02 Summarize to select main ideas.

1.03 Draw inferences.

1.04 Detect cause and effect.

1.07 Distinguish fact and fiction.

Explain why you think this strategy will work. How does the strategy help your students learn? I think that this strategy is useful to students in identifying specific problems when studying a particular segment in Social Studies. They could use this in so many ways. They could use it for a particular person in history, a war; studying a concept, studying economic times… the possibilities are endless. This could be done as a pre reading exercise or during reading to help them identify specifics about a topic.

Instructional Strategy Overview Worksheet 2

 

Title: Who am I? A History Mystery

Name: Shannon Wilson

 Name of Strategy: During reading

Source (Where did this come from?): Smithsonian Education; National Museum of American History

Link to the Strategy: http://americanhistory.si.edu/militaryhistory/resources/whoami/whoami.html

Give a thorough description of the strategy and how it will be implemented. This should be a summary of the strategy according to the original source: Online educational activity that teaches students about the Civil War as they try to guess the identity of Civil War-era individuals by examining objects from their lives.

Explain what part of the standard course of study is addressed by this activity:

The skills that this activity uses are not just for Middle Grades, but for all of Social Studies.

Skill Competency Goal 2 The learner will acquire strategies to access a variety of sources, and use appropriate research skills to gather, synthesize, and report information using diverse modalities to demonstrate the knowledge acquired.

2.02 Explore print and non-print materials. 2.03 Utilize different types of technology.

• Skill Competency Goal 5 The learner will acquire strategies needed for effective incorporation of computer technology in the learning process.

Explain why you think this strategy will work. How does the strategy help your students learn? I think that this strategy is a great way for students to study historical figures of the Civil War. It is a fun and engaging game for them to play online. This activity can be done during a unit on the Civil War in order to further their knowledge of important people of that time period.

Instructional Strategy Overview Worksheet 1

 

Title: Getting to Know Your Textbook!

Name: Shannon Wilson

 Name of Strategy: Pre reading strategy

Source (Where did this come from?): Academy Curricular Exchange Columbia Education Center Social Studies

Link to the Strategy: http://ofcn.org/cyber.serv/academy/ace/soc/cecsst/cecsst217.html

Give a thorough description of the strategy and how it will be implemented. This should be a summary of the strategy according to the original source: Students will explore their textbook to find out what it has to offer in the way of resources, information, and provide practical ways for students to utilize the text. They will fill out a worksheet that asks them to locate different parts of the text and look at what the chapters and units offer.

Explain what part of the standard course of study is addressed by this activity:

The skills that this activity uses are not just for Middle Grades, but for all of Social Studies.

• Skill Competency Goal 1The learner will acquire strategies for reading social studies materials and for increasing social studies vocabulary.
• Skill Competency Goal 2 The learner will acquire strategies to access a variety of sources, and use appropriate research skills to gather, synthesize, and report information using diverse modalities to demonstrate the knowledge acquired.
• Skill Competency Goal 3 The learner will acquire strategies to analyze, interpret, create, and use resources and materials.

 Explain why you think this strategy will work. How does the strategy help your students learn?

I think that this strategy is a great way for students to look at what the textbook has to offer. I would use this strategy the first week of class to get the students familiar with what the book has to offer and to get them excited about what we will be covering throughout the year.