Monitoring and Checking: Activities
Split-Page Notes:
Interactive Notebook:
Think, Pair, Share:
- To take Split-Page Notes, students begin by folding a piece of paper in half vertically or by creating a two-column page in a word-processing document. Students are then instructed to read the assigned material quickly, using either sticky notes or writing directly onto a text to mark important facts and ideas. As students work through the text, they should not mark or write down more than three or four words per paragraph. This forces students to make judgments about the most important ideas rather than simply highlighting large chucks of information. Once students have completed the reading, they review the facts and ideas identified as important during their reading and transfer significant ideas taken from the text to the left side of their note-taking paper. Next, students go back to each of the ideas in the left-hand column and use the right-hand column to elaborate on the ideas by drawing upon the text, their own experiences, other texts, class lectures or discussions. When working on the notes in the right-hand column, it is important for the teacher to remind students not to repeat information already covered. Rather, students should concentrate on adding material that offers a new perspective or alternative examples in order to deepen understanding of the text.
Interactive Notebook:
- Interactive Notebooks are a way to combine not take with student responses. Similar to split-page notes, students use a right/left orientation to connect their learning to self, text, and world. For the Interactive Notebook, students use the right side of a spiral notebook to record noets from the teacher, a movie, a demonstrations, etc., and the left side of the spiral notebook for their own thinking about the content. Teachers can guide students in ways to respond on the left side, such as an illustrated dictionary entry; however, the thinking and response on the left side should be the student's own ideas and thinking.
Think, Pair, Share:
- Students begin this strategy by thinking through a question or scenario posed by the teacher or about a text they have just read. In the THINK stage, students are writing and thinking on their own as a way to organize their ideas and response. Once students have had ample time to think and record their ideas, they work in pairs to discuss their individual ideas. Finally, each pair SHARES their discussion with the whole class. Whole group discussion ensues, ending with the teacher debriefing and summarizing the ideas.
Appointment Clocks:
- At the beginning of the school year, figure out a system to where the students can set up Appointment Clocks with different partners. Each student should have different partners from 1-12 o'clock. When the teacher wants to set up the class in pairs, he/she can say "Match up with your 2 o'clock partner!" and the students can then find their partner and get to work. It's a great system to make sure students are not always paired up with the same peers.
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