Cues, Questions, and Advance Organizers

1. Cues, Questions, and Advance Organizers Cues, questions and advance organizers are used to activate the child’s schema about a topic. Cues Hints Attention Getter Questions Higher-level questions Lower-order questions Wait Time Questions Mind-set Questions Advance Organizers Expository Narrative Skimming Illustrations Miguel Vasquez. KLPM. Fall 2011

2. Classification Cues • Hints that have the student guessing what is to be expected in the lesson. • The more the student knows about the topic, the more interest is created. Question • Higher-level questions require students to analysis information. • Lower-order questions are question that students should not take a lot of time to answer. • Questions can given a wait time like pausing, to give students time to think. • Questions can also be asked before a learning experience to prepare students minds on the topic. Advance Organizer • Expository advance organizers are guides to a brief description of new information for the students. • Narrative advance organizers are in story format that is related to the topic. • Skimming is a advance organizer form that is a brief view that incorporates what is seen into a lesson. • Graphic organizers are used to gather information on a particular topic. Miguel Vasquez. KLPM. Fall 2011

3. Classroom Examples • Mr. Webb is telling his students about the area of two-dimensional shapes that was covered in the previous class. He then goes on to explain how they are going to incorporate this information into the surface area of a solid object. 2. Ms. Flores taught a lesson on the structure of the cells of a plant. She tells the students to use a web to find the connections of the plant cell structure. Miguel Vasquez. KLPM. Fall 2011