Cues, Questions and Advance Organizers
Enhancing students’ ability to retrieve, use, and organize information about a topic
Marzano’s Classroom Recommendations:
Resources:
Blooms and Questioning Strategies
Activating Prior Knowledge
Technology helps to:
Marzano’s Classroom Recommendations:
- Use explicit cues
- Ask questions that elicit inferences
- Ask analytic questions
- Use expository, narrative and graphic advance organizers
- Use skimming as an advance organizer
Resources:
Blooms and Questioning Strategies
Activating Prior Knowledge
Technology helps to:
- Create well organized visually appealing organizers (to include non-linguistic representation and multimedia)
- Facilitates capturing, organizing and and sharing responses
- Digital copies of tables, charts and note-taking templates using MS Office products (Word, Excel, PowerPoint)
- Rubrics – Excel, Rubistar
- Graphic Advance Organizers – Diagram.ly, bubbl.us
- Brief video clips