EDUC447 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Graphic Organizer, Formative Assessment
25 Apr 2020
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● Before Reading
○ “Learning occurs when the student perceives an importance between the
material presented and his life or world”
○ What students already know (relative to the content) is a strong predictor of what
they will learn
○ Activate prior knowledge (assess what students know and learn about the
misconceptions they might have) - vocabulary knowledge is included in this
■ Multidimensional - may know a lot about one area and not a lot about
another
■ Strong connection with vocabulary
○ Build on prior knowledge
○ Create interest and motivation for students
○ Focus students on reading and learning activities
○ Support their reading (modeling!)
■ Better able to understand information
■ Ask questions
■ Make connections
○ Examples
■ Admit slips
● Opportunity for students to read a short piece of text and activate
their prior knowledge
● Students will be able to make connections and predictions
regarding the text
● Students will generate questions to aid in the discussion of the
text
■ Skimming and scanning
■ Creating questions
■ Concept ladder
● Advanced graphic organizer to synthesize understanding of
concept
■ Discussions
■ Interactive word walls
● Formative assessment
● Show connections between words
