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Maximizing Instructional Time

Maximizing Instructional Time. PlPla. Focusing on the Beginning. Intro Activity:. Individually, take 1 minute to list 10 of your favorite foods. With your clock buddy, take 1 minute to merge your list into one with 10 foods you can both agree on. Write your list on chart paper.

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Maximizing Instructional Time

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  1. Maximizing Instructional Time PlPla Focusing on the Beginning

  2. Intro Activity: • Individually, take 1 minute to list 10 of your favorite foods. • With your clock buddy, take 1 minute to merge your list into one with 10 foods you can both agree on. Write your list on chart paper. • With your partner, you have 5 minutes to draw a person that represents all the foods on your list • Be prepared to share your drawing.

  3. Purposes for Strategies Used in the Beginning of a Lesson • Buildbackground knowledge about the concept • Activateprior knowledge • Discuss/ Introduceunfamiliar vocabulary • Emphasizeimportant concepts for the day • Grabtheir attention/Set the stage for learning • Generate questions/ make predictions • Set a purpose for reading, listening, or viewing

  4. Purposes for Strategies Used in the Beginning of a Lesson • Build background knowledge about the concept ABC Brainstorm, Table Talk, Corners • Activate prior knowledge Anticipation Guide, Think-Pair-Share, Quick Write, Five Word Prediction, Pre reading Plan, Semantic Map, Word Splash, Frame of Reference • Discuss/ Introduce unfamiliar vocabulary Pre reading Plan, Five Word Prediction • Emphasize Important concepts for the day Snowball Fight, List-Group-Label • Grab their attention/Set the stage for learning Story, Real life application, Create tension with a question, Video Clip, Movement , Creative Activity, Props, Music • Generate questions/ make predictions Five word Prediction • Set a purpose for Reading, Listening, or Viewing Three Column Charts, Corners, Anticipation Guide, Journals

  5. Before Strategy Samples: • Anticipation Guides • Quadrant Card • Vocabulary Word Map • Create A Card Game

  6. Assessing Your Understanding… • Take 2 minutes to read the first page of the Middle School Science scenario. • Identify the beginning activity used by this teacher on the first day of the unit on density and the evidence that supports the effectiveness of the strategy.

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