General Strategies for All Sorts of Things

Asking Good Questions – and they don’t even have to mean it!

Level 1, Level 2, and Level 3 Questions – not all questions are created equal

Essential Questions – the power of seeing the big picture

Pre-Reading – establishing context and connections and stuff

Simple Pre-Reading w/ Visuals: “The Oil Boom”

Vocabalogues (Pre-Reading by Building Vocabulary)

Vocab Squares (Pre-Reading by Building Vocabulary)

Post-Reading – why do artsy-fartsy stuff, and are there other options?

ABC Summaries (Post-Reading w/ a healthy dose of Artsy-Fartsy)

Know-It-Ry (Post-Reading à la Weird Al and classic American poetry)

RAFTing Through History (Post-Reading with Creativity & Critical Thinking)