The SURN Social Studies and History Forum blog facilitates middle school and high school teachers who attended a workshop on using high yield literacy strategies in history class to share and showcase what they are doing in their classrooms, offers a forum for questions, and lets viewers read posts of how teachers are working to effectively use literacy strategies they learned at the workshop.
Tuesday, November 2, 2010
Tried something new!
I used Frayer Models for the first time in my classes. I was impressed at how well the students did with them. It pushed the higher level students into creating complex definitions of their own and my less motivated students could use the clues to also come up with definitions. Has anyone else had success with this? I am thinking about doing them more often! I also made graffiti walls with my students to review my last unit before moving on. They had a ton of fun making them and they also had good conversations with each other to review the content!
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YES! I made the same discovery earlier in the year. My students really enjoy using the Frayer model to process just about anything. The model adapts easily to higher level thinking activities. Some of my students told me that they shared their Frayer models from my class with other content teachers! This rocks!
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