Chapter 4 - Cues, Questions, and Advance Organizers

This chapter "focuses on enhancing students' ability to retrieve, use, and organize information about a topic."

"Cues are explicit reminders or hints about what students are about to experience. Questions perform the same function as cues by triggering students' memeories and helping them to access prior knowledge. Advance organizers, ..., are structures that teachers provide to students before a learning activity to help them classify and make sense of the content they'll encounter" 

Recommendations:

1.  Use expository advance organizers.
2. Use narrative advance organizers.
3. Teach students skimming as a form of advance organizer.
4. Teach students how to use graphic advance organizers.
5. Use explicit cues.
6. Ask questions that elicit inferences.
7. Ask analytic questions.

Recommended readings:

From Trivial Pursuit to Essential Questions and Standards-Based Learning

Applying Bloom's Taxonomy

Word Processing Applications

Advanced Organizers:

Fur.ly

1. Expository: brochures, definitions, rubrics, programs
     RubiStar: http://rubistar.4teachers.org/  
2. Narrative: stories, articles, artistic works:
     see Web 2.0, drawing/doodler
     fur.ly/4qhn
3. Graphic: tables, charts, artistic works
     see Chapter 1, creating KWHL

Spreadsheet Software:

Excel tutorial Handouts:

Organizing and Brainstorming Software:

gliffy.com

Gliffy user manual

Also see Web 2.0 Organizing and Brainstorming

Multimedia:

United Streaming : educational video collection

The Internet Archive : "Way Back Machine"

Google Video : searches specifically for video clips

A9 : searches images, blogs and movies

Creative Commons: offers flexible copyright licenses for creative works. student created works can be used with future classes

Stellaruium Download

BrainPopJr.

Voki.com