1. WALK AROUND SURVEY
Purpose:
To activate students’ prior knowledge through
conversation and movement.
Description:
Walk around survey can be used as an activating or
summarizing strategy.

2. THREE STEP INTERVIEW
Purpose:
To engage students in conversation for the purpose of
analyzing and synthesizing new information.
Description:
The three step interview is a cooperative structure that
help students personalize their learning and listen to and
appreciate the ideas and thinking of others.

3. IN THE HOT SEAT
Purpose:
To motivate students learning.
Description:
In this activity, several students will be asked to sit in the
“HOT SEAT” and answer questions related to the topic of study.

4. COGNITIVE
STRATEGIES

5. RAFT
Purpose:
To engage student learning through analysis and
synthesis of information.
Description:
Using this strategy students will take on the role of
someone or something related to the topic of study. They will then
generate a product for a designated audience.

6. R – role of the writer
A – audience to whom the product is being directed
F – format of the product being created
T – topic of the product.

7. DUMP AND CLUMP
Purpose:
To provide a step by step process for organizing thinking
and facilitating learning of new and difficult material.
Description:
This is a great strategy to use when the students are
faced with learning new and difficult information.

8. COLLABORATIVE LISTENING AND VIEWING
GUIDE (CLVG)
Purpose:
To help students learn from visual information.
Description:
The CLVG is a lesson framework to help students learn
from information observed and/or heard.

9. 3 X 3 VOCABULARY
Purpose:
To promote the development of complete sentences as
well as the identification of relationships between concepts.
Description:
In this activity, students will take related words, ideas, and
concepts and combine them together in sentences.