The two strategies I liked the most from this week were Before-During-After Questioning and the Analogy Chart. What I liked about BDA Questioning, was the fact that is breaks down the reading into three sections. In the Before section, students explain what they already know about the reading and what are their expectations for the reading. In the During section, students begin to think about why things are happening and get some of their Before questions answered. In the After section, students highlight what they learned from the reading and talk about some of the key points. I like this strategy for the fact that students have to stayed focus on the topic. Sometime in reading, students just read the book and don't remember anything. However, with BDA, students have to put in input and can gain an understanding of the material.
My other strategy I liked was Analogy Charts. An Analogy Chart is like a T-Chart, which I also like, students are given two words and then add more words to the chart that are similar to their top word. This allows students to be creative in the words they come up with that are similar to their first word. As a teacher, you can have students focus on certain types of words with this chart, or just show their knowledge and come up with what they know.
I like the use of analogy charts to make rhyming word families. I think the BDA chart provides students with structure so that they understand how their thinking progresses and changes with learning new information. This activity helps students have the growth mindset.
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ReplyDeleteI enjoyed reading your blog! I like the BDA strategy and the analogy charts. I think that using one or multiple strategies at a time, will help the students learn as well as you being able to keep lessons fresh and exciting to teach. Great ideas!
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The BDA also works well for both a summative, and formative assessment. You can see what they previously know, what they are actively learning, and the end result of that. Gives you a great idea about what they know. I also really liked the analogy charts. I will for sure be using this!
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