READING - Question Answer Relationship

QAR - Strategy approaching text and background knowledge

Questions-Answer Relationship Explanation

READING - Making Predictions

Making Predictions

READING - Making Connections

Making Connections - Beginner

Text Connections

READING - Elements of the Story

Elements of the Story Diagram

Elements of the Story

Plot Diagram

Plot Structure Diagram

Elements of Fiction - Rap video 

READING - Story Map

Story Map 1

Story Map 2

Story Map 3

READING - Pre-Reading Notes

Pre-Reading Notes

Early Finishers Tasks

Activating Prior Knowledge

    According to cognitive psychologists, learners develop understandings through connections they make among those things they know and have experienced, and those things they are learning. 

    At the beginning of a unit or lesson, teachers can help students activate their prior knowledge, or even build the background for those students who may lack prior knowledge of a particular content topic using the KWL chart or the revised KWL chart.

     By the end of the unit or lesson, students will be able to brainstorm what they already know about a topic, identify what they would like to learn about it, list what they have learned about this topic, and confirm or disprove information on the chart while adding newly learned information.

Differences and Similarities

     In this spot of the Teaching Corner I will upload all those strategies I find on my way and consider worth sharing with you.

     The first one is called Venn Diagram, a graphic organizer used to compare and contrast two or three concepts in a way you can visualize the relationships between them.


Venn Diagram with two concepts

Venn Diagram with three concepts

Website to create your own Venn Diagram online 

My own Venn Diagram