Denise D. Nessel

You are designing an activity for students to interact with lots of information they have gathered from a variety of sources and you need some form of activity that causes them to work with, use, and think about what they have collected. Nessesel and Graaham to the rescue. They have collected a wide varety of techniques and strategies that they describe and demonstrate briefly in just enough detail to use the ideas with classes to keep them learning rather than cutting and pasting. Here is the list of familiar and not so familiar strategies they cover: analogies, anticipation guide, carousel brainstorming, cloze procedure, cubing, directed reading-thinking activity, facts and inferences, Frayer model of concept development, freewriting, fames for thinking, graphic organizers, I-search reporting, jigsaw, journals and learning logs, key word notes, key work prediction, list group label, notetaking, paraphrasing, possible sentences, read and think math, read talk write, readers’ theatre, reciprocal teaching, saturation reporting, think-pair-share, and writing frames. If half of these techniques are unfamiliar to you, then this is a book worth purchasing for its ideas to experiment with. Recommended for both the teacher librarian and the classroom teacher.… (meer)