Thinking Strategies for Student Achievement

Improving Learning Across the Curriculum, K-12
Second Edition
Denise D. Nessel - National Urban Alliance for Effective Education
Joyce M. Graham - Director of Professional Development, Scholastic RED
Thinking Strategies for Student Achievement
August 2006 | 248 pages | Corwin
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"This resource provides a repertoire of high-effect comprehension strategies. It is important for classroom teachers and school leaders to be able to justify why they are using specific strategies and what the benefits are of a specific strategy. Nessel and Graham provide this justification."
-W. Dorsey Hammond, Professor of Education
Salisbury University

Use these strategies to develop your students' thinking skills and increase their learning in all subject areas.

How can teachers improve students' higher level and creative thinking? The revised edition of this handbook provides strategies and sample lesson plans to help students learn to think more effectively and to raise their achievement levels.

Drawing upon past and recent research, the authors discuss the importance of actively engaging all students-including those with a history of low achievement-in higher levels of thinking. Thirty specific strategies, including K-W-L, Read and Think Math, and Reciprocal Teaching, can be readily integrated into daily lesson plans.

This step-by-step guide shows teachers how to:

  • Help students develop, refine, and extend their thinking capacities
  • Challenge students to creatively approach complex and unfamiliar material
  • Encourage students to bring their own perspective to class assignments
  • Provide students at all learning levels with appropriate support

With its user-friendly, practical approach, this important resource should be in the hands of every educator!

Contents

Preface

Preface

Acknowledgments

Acknowledgments

About the Authors

About the Authors

Introduction: Thinking--Levels, Purposes, and Contexts

  • 1. Analogies
  • 2. Anticipation Guide
  • 3. Carousel Brainstorming
  • 4. Cloze Procedure
  • 5. Cubing
  • 6. Directed Reading-Thinking Activity (DRTA)
  • 7. Facts and Inferences
  • 8. Frayer Model for Concept Development
  • 9. Freewriting
  • 10. Games for Thinking
  • 11. Graphic Organizers
  • 12. I-Search Reporting
  • 13. Imitation Writing
  • 14. Jigsaw
  • 15. Journals and Learning Logs
  • 16. Key Word Notes
  • 17. Key Word Prediction
  • 18. KWL
  • 19. List Group Label
  • 20. Notetaking
  • 21. Paraphrasing
  • 22. Possible Sentences
  • 23. Read and Think Math (RAT Math)
  • 24. Read Talk Write
  • 25. Readers' Theater
  • 26. Reciprocal Teaching
  • 27. Saturation Reporting
  • 28. Scrambled Words and Sentences
  • 29. Think-Pair-Share
  • 30. Writing Frames

Resource: Combining Strategies--Sample Lessons

Resource: Combining Strategies--Sample Lessons

Bibliography

Bibliography

Index

Index

Additional materials

Description

"This resource provides a repertoire of high-effect comprehension strategies. It is important for classroom teachers and school leaders to be able to justify why they are using specific strategies and what the benefits are of a specific strategy. Nessel and Graham provide this justification."
-W. Dorsey Hammond, Professor of Education
Salisbury University

Use these strategies to develop your students' thinking skills and increase their learning in all subject areas.

How can teachers improve students' higher level and creative thinking? The revised edition of this handbook provides strategies and sample lesson plans to help students learn to think more effectively and to raise their achievement levels.

Drawing upon past and recent research, the authors discuss the importance of actively engaging all students-including those with a history of low achievement-in higher levels of thinking. Thirty specific strategies, including K-W-L, Read and Think Math, and Reciprocal Teaching, can be readily integrated into daily lesson plans.

This step-by-step guide shows teachers how to:

  • Help students develop, refine, and extend their thinking capacities
  • Challenge students to creatively approach complex and unfamiliar material
  • Encourage students to bring their own perspective to class assignments
  • Provide students at all learning levels with appropriate support

With its user-friendly, practical approach, this important resource should be in the hands of every educator!

Contents

Preface

Preface

Acknowledgments

Acknowledgments

About the Authors

About the Authors

Introduction: Thinking--Levels, Purposes, and Contexts

  • 1. Analogies
  • 2. Anticipation Guide
  • 3. Carousel Brainstorming
  • 4. Cloze Procedure
  • 5. Cubing
  • 6. Directed Reading-Thinking Activity (DRTA)
  • 7. Facts and Inferences
  • 8. Frayer Model for Concept Development
  • 9. Freewriting
  • 10. Games for Thinking
  • 11. Graphic Organizers
  • 12. I-Search Reporting
  • 13. Imitation Writing
  • 14. Jigsaw
  • 15. Journals and Learning Logs
  • 16. Key Word Notes
  • 17. Key Word Prediction
  • 18. KWL
  • 19. List Group Label
  • 20. Notetaking
  • 21. Paraphrasing
  • 22. Possible Sentences
  • 23. Read and Think Math (RAT Math)
  • 24. Read Talk Write
  • 25. Readers' Theater
  • 26. Reciprocal Teaching
  • 27. Saturation Reporting
  • 28. Scrambled Words and Sentences
  • 29. Think-Pair-Share
  • 30. Writing Frames

Resource: Combining Strategies--Sample Lessons

Resource: Combining Strategies--Sample Lessons

Bibliography

Bibliography

Index

Index

Additional materials

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Thinking Strategies for Student Achievement

Improving Learning Across the Curriculum, K-12


August 2006 | 248 pages | Corwin

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"This resource provides a repertoire of high-effect comprehension strategies. It is important for classroom teachers and school leaders to be able to justify why they are using specific strategies and what the benefits are of a specific strategy. Nessel and Graham provide this justification."
-W. Dorsey Hammond, Professor of Education
Salisbury University

Use these strategies to develop your students' thinking skills and increase their learning in all subject areas.

How can teachers improve students' higher level and creative thinking? The revised edition of this handbook provides strategies and sample lesson plans to help students learn to think more effectively and to raise their achievement levels.

Drawing upon past and recent research, the authors discuss the importance of actively engaging all students-including those with a history of low achievement-in higher levels of thinking. Thirty specific strategies, including K-W-L, Read and Think Math, and Reciprocal Teaching, can be readily integrated into daily lesson plans.

This step-by-step guide shows teachers how to:

  • Help students develop, refine, and extend their thinking capacities
  • Challenge students to creatively approach complex and unfamiliar material
  • Encourage students to bring their own perspective to class assignments
  • Provide students at all learning levels with appropriate support

With its user-friendly, practical approach, this important resource should be in the hands of every educator!


Table Of Contents:

  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • About the Authors
  • Introduction: Thinking--Levels, Purposes, and Contexts
  • 1. Analogies
  • 2. Anticipation Guide
  • 3. Carousel Brainstorming
  • 4. Cloze Procedure
  • 5. Cubing
  • 6. Directed Reading-Thinking Activity (DRTA)
  • 7. Facts and Inferences
  • 8. Frayer Model for Concept Development
  • 9. Freewriting
  • 10. Games for Thinking
  • 11. Graphic Organizers
  • 12. I-Search Reporting
  • 13. Imitation Writing
  • 14. Jigsaw
  • 15. Journals and Learning Logs
  • 16. Key Word Notes
  • 17. Key Word Prediction
  • 18. KWL
  • 19. List Group Label
  • 20. Notetaking
  • 21. Paraphrasing
  • 22. Possible Sentences
  • 23. Read and Think Math (RAT Math)
  • 24. Read Talk Write
  • 25. Readers' Theater
  • 26. Reciprocal Teaching
  • 27. Saturation Reporting
  • 28. Scrambled Words and Sentences
  • 29. Think-Pair-Share
  • 30. Writing Frames
  • Resource: Combining Strategies--Sample Lessons
  • Bibliography
  • Index

Recent Product Reviews:

"This resource provides a repertoire of high-effect comprehension strategies. It is important for classroom teachers and school leaders to be able to justify why they are using specific strategies and what the benefits are of a specific strategy. Nessel and Graham provide this justification."
W. Dorsey Hammond, Professor of Education, Salisbury University
“Teachers at all levels will find this material useful because the text describes each strategy, explains its benefits, presents step-by-step procedures to teach each strategy, and provides suggestions for implementation."
Leonard J. Villanueva, Sixth Grade Teacher, Honowai Elementary School, Waipahu, HI
“This book can be used at all grade levels and with any curriculum. The layout of each chapter is great, guiding teachers through the strategy without scripting."
Kael Sagheer, Fifth Grade Teacher, Willa Cather Elementary School, Omaha, NE
"One of the book’s major strengths is the simple and straightforward organization of each chapter, which makes the material predictable, accessible, and easy to follow."
Patty McGee, Fourth Grade Teacher, Norwood Elementary School, NJ

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