Strategies Test

Building knowledge

o Making connections

· Predicting & Inferring

· Questioning

· Summarizing

o Retelling

o Synthesizing

· Monitoring (Click & Clunk)

o Purpose setting

o Visualizing

· Evaluating

Know how the TEKS categorizes the strategies (Strand 2)

Types of teacher questions

· Instructional scaffolding: “model of explicit instructions”

o GRR

· Prompting

· Cooperative learning

o Different ways to group students

· Think aloud vs modeling

· Reading aloud methods

· Ways to respond through writing

· Anchor charts

o What are they for?

o How do you use them (the best way?)

· Semantic maps (graphic organizer, visual aids, concept maps, etc.)

o Know their purposes (matching to strategy)

o Modes (pre-made, foldables, sticky notes, digital, hand drawn)

o Some semantic maps specific to informational and literary texts