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STRATEGY OF THE MONTH

Whole Class Mind Map
Component: Guided Oral Practice
 
Rationale
  • Teaches how to categorize information learned and to review facts
  • Lowers affective filter
  • Provides a link between Pictorial Input Chart and the Process Grid
 
Strategic Design
  • Prewrite categories on Mind Map
  • Place next to Pictorial Input Chart and Process Grid
 
Delivery 
  • Students are in close proximity to chart
  • Use Three Personal Standards and Literacy Awards
  • Establish and articulate comprehensible language objective and/or content objective
  • Chorally read the center of the Mind Map. Record topic in front of students
  • Have students put heads together to discuss one category at a time
  • Use choral calling of facts “just tell me”
  • Sketch and bullet facts shared by students
  • Use the same color for entire chart (release scaffolding)
 
ELD Support
Teacher prompt: Put your heads together and discuss the ________ (category)
Teacher prompt: Tell me about the __________, _________________
                                                                                 (category)
Student response: The__________has_____________________.
Student response: One fact about the _______is________________.
Student response: _____________is interesting since________________.
Student response: I am curious about __________________because_________________________.
Student response: The ______________of the
                                      (category)
_________________is _____________________.

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