Apprenticeship Strategies to Strengthen Students' Understanding

Nudging Understanding Along the Way Learning-Teaching Strategies

Before Reading

Self-Talk

Generate Intentions for Reading/Learning

Think Alouds

Stop Sign

Compass Question

Turn the Title Into a Question

K-N-L Chart

Thinking Maps

H.O.M./Holding Onto Meaning Organizers

Graphic Organizers

Anticipation Guides

Cloze Passage

Probable Passage

Picture Walk/Survey

Jigsaw

Schema-Gram

Reading Easier Level Text First

Read Alouds

Activate Background Knowledge; Build Needed B.K.

Say Something

Chalk Talk

Multi-Pass

THIEVES

POSSE

SQ3R

Concept Clusters

Connect Two

List Group Label

Text Talk

Frayer Model

Linear Array

During Reading

Self-Talk

Think Alouds

Stop Sign

Reciprocal Teaching

Key Word Notes

Cornell Notes

Coding The Text

Highlight

Brain Stains

Thinking Ink

Sticky Note Trail

Multi-Pass

POSSE

SQ3R

Read Draw Talk Write/Read Talk Write

Draw It Out/Act It Out

Concept Clusters

After Reading

Self-Talk

Revisit Intentions

Summing Up/That’s The Way It Is

Summary Writing (Key Word Notes; Cornell Notes)

Think Alouds

THIEVES

SQ3R

POSSE

What Makes You Say That?

I Used to Think…Now I Think…

Visual Representation/Display

K-N-L Chart

Answer Compass Questions

Jeopardy

Generate Book Club Questions

Discuss Knowledge Learned and Profile Its Application

Exit Card Response

Think-Pair-Share

Draw It Out-Act It Out

Headlines

10:00 News!

The Last Word

Oprah Winfrey

Revisit Concept Clusters

Connect Two

Probable Passages

Frayer Model

Linear Array

Cubing

RAFT