Questions+Cues+and+Advanced+Organizers

=Enhance students' ability to retrieve, use, and organize what they already know about a topic.=

Generalizations From Research

 * 1) Cues and Questions should focus on what is important as opposed to what is unusual.
 * 2) “Higher level” questions produce deeper learning than “lower level” questions.
 * 3) Waiting briefly before accepting responses has the effect of increasing the depth of students’ answers.
 * 4) Questions are effective learning tools even when asked before a learning experience.
 * 5) Advance organizers should focus on what is important as opposed to what is unusual.
 * 6) Higher level advance organizers produce deeper learning than lower level advance organizers.
 * 7) Advance organizers are most useful with information that is not well organized.
 * 8) Different types of advance organizers produce different results.

Example Activities

 * Cornell Notes
 * Graphic Organizers
 * Rubrics
 * Frayer Model
 * Higher-Level Questioning and Wait-time
 * Web/Concept Maps

Recommendations & Ideas

 * 1) Use explicit cues
 * 2) Ask questions that elicit inferences
 * 3) Ask analytic questions
 * 4) Use expository advance organizers
 * 5) Use narrative advance organizers
 * 6) Use Skimming as a form of advance organizers (SQ3R)
 * 7) Use graphic advance organizers

//Information presented above in the definition is from [|McREL], and generalizations from research, and recommendations & ideas is from [|Classroom Instruction that Works: Research-Based Strategies for Increasing Student Achievement (ASCD)(Robert J. Marzano, Debra J. Pickering, Jane E. Pollock)].//

//Tools//
[|Exploratree] - Online Graphic Organizer

Inspiration templates http://t4.jordan.k12.ut.us/teacher_resources/inspiration_templates/index.html

Applying Bloom's Taxonomy [|www.teachers.ash.org.au/researchskills/Dalton.htm] [|www.utexas.edu/student/utic/lrnres/handouts/1414.html]

From Trivial Pursuit to Essential Questions and Standards-based Learning [|www.fno.org/feb01/pl.html]

For the Best Answers, Ask Tough Questions [|www.joycevalenza.com/**questions**.html]

Guide students to relevant and educational web sites [|www.uen.org/activities]

Advanced and Graphical Organizers [|www.glnd.k12.va.us/resources/**graphical****organizers**] [|www.eduplace.com]

How Bridges Work http://science.howstuffworks.com/bridge.htm

Brain Pop Movie - vocabulary behind bridges [|www.brainpop.com/technology/scienceandindustry/bridges]

Video clips [|www.unitedstreaming.com] [|www.archive.org] http://video.google.com http://a9.com Amazon search engine for images, blogs, movies, books and web sites

Short animated films for kindergarten through 3rd grade [|www.brainpopjr.com]