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Enhancing Tier I Instruction

Enhancing Tier I Instruction. Pre-K August 21, 2013. Exploring Routines a.k.a. Strategies. Introducing and Exploring Ideas Think-Puzzle-Explore. STEPS Use anchor charts for documenting the student responses. Ask, “What do you think you know about…?” Record student responses.

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Enhancing Tier I Instruction

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  1. Enhancing Tier I Instruction Pre-K August 21, 2013

  2. Exploring Routinesa.k.a. Strategies

  3. Introducing and Exploring Ideas Think-Puzzle-Explore STEPS • Use anchor charts for documenting the student responses. • Ask, “What do you think you know about…?” Record student responses. • Ask, “What questions or puzzles do you have?” Record student responses. • Ask, “How can we explore these puzzles?” Record student responses. • Share the thinking.

  4. Introducing and Exploring Ideas Think-Puzzle-Explore Pre-K Application Week 1 Theme: My School and Me • Predict: What do you know about school? • Questions: What questions or puzzles do you have about school? • Explore: How can we explore what puzzles we have about school? • Share your thoughts

  5. Introducing and Exploring Ideas Think-Puzzle-Explore Other Pre-K Applications

  6. Introducing and Exploring Ideas The Explanation Game STEPS • Take a close look at an object you are trying to understand. • Name a feature of the object that you notice. • Explain it. What role does the feature serve? Why is it there? Generate as many explanations as possible. • Give reasons. What makes you say that? Press for evidence. • Generate alternatives. Press for alternative explanations. Keep students attention on the relationship between the features and why they are that way.

  7. Introducing and Exploring Ideas The Explanation Game Pre-K Application Week 1 Theme: My School and Me • Take a close look at the US flag. • Name the parts of the flag you notice. • Why do you think the flag has stripes? A pole? The color red? Generate as many explanations as possible. • Give reasons. What makes you say that? Press for evidence. • Press for alternative explanations for each feature of the flag. Focus on the relationship between the features and why they are that way.

  8. Introducing and Exploring Ideas The Explanation Game Other Pre-K Applications

  9. Synthesizing and Organizing Ideas Headlines STEPS • Ask the students to think about what they have been learning. • Ask students, “Write a headline for this topic that captures the core idea you want to remember.” • Students share their headlines and reasoning as appropriate for age of student. • Create a class collection of the headlines that document the group’s thinking.

  10. Synthesizing and Organizing Ideas Headlines Pre-K Application Week 2 Theme: My School and Me • Use the morning message one day a week to create headlines and summarize the message. • Document the headlines created by students on sentence strips. Use the sentence strips to create a bulletin board with the various headlines and include the morning message.

  11. Other Pre-K Applications Synthesizing and Organizing Ideas Headlines

  12. Synthesizing and Organizing Ideas I Used To Think…Now I Think STEPS • Explain to students that this routine is to help them reflect on their thinking about a topic and to identify how their ideas have developed over time. • Have students verbalize what it was they used to think about the topic…”I used to think…” Then have the students verbalize how their thinking has changed as a result of what they have been studying. • Share the thinking.

  13. Synthesizing and Organizing Ideas I Used To Think…Now I Think Pre-K Application Week 1 Theme: My School and Me • At the end of the first week, ask students, “What did you used to think about school.” Record their responses. • Then ask students to respond to the question, “Now I think …. about school.” Record their responses.

  14. Other Pre-K Applications Synthesizing and Organizing Ideas I Used To Think…Now I Think

  15. Digging Deeper Into Ideas What Makes You Say That? STEPS • Look for moments when students give explanations or offer opinions. • Push for elaboration and evidence by asking, “What makes you say that?” • Share the thinking.

  16. Digging Deeper Into Ideas What Makes You Say That? Pre-K Application Week 1 Theme: My School and Me • As students share their thoughts and opinions about school, ask them to elaborate their thinking by asking, “What makes you say that?” • Support students’ attempt at justification.

  17. Other Pre-K Applications Digging Deeper Into Ideas What Makes You Say That?

  18. S STOP

  19. S STOP T Takea Deep Breath

  20. S STOP T Takea Deep Breath A And

  21. S STOP T Takea Deep Breath A And R Relax

  22. Commitments

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