Reciprocal Strategy
Students coach each other through a set of test
Jigsaw
Increases student engagement and encourages collaboration and results in better learning.
Pictionary race
Great team game where students revised vocabulary in a fun and interactive way.
Concept Attainment
It is a strategy that involves students in their own learning. Instead of you just delivering
information to them, you are helping them to discover on their own.
Run to the board
It is a good way to see how well students learn in the previous lesson.
Running dictation
It is a good way to get students out of their sets and move around and especially if you find
teaching the last class of the day and the children are really tired.
The mind’s eye
A pre-reading strategy of students build into images based to the selective rules of the text.
The 5 Why’s
Simple effective tool for covering the root of the problem.
Memory story
Students read out a passage on the board aloud together. The teacher removes words asking
students to recall the missing part of the passage each time they read it again.
A cup of conversation
Is another good warm up to improve your student’s fluency. Students speaks topic from a cup
and discuss it in pairs and then change topic and swap bottles.
Inside-outside circle
Discussion technique gives students the opportunity to respond to questions and or discuss
information with variety of peers in a structured manner.
List-Group-Label
A form of semantic matting. This strategy encourages students to improve vocabulary and
categorization skills and learn to organize concepts.
Think-Pair-Share
Collaborative strategy in which students work together to solve a problem or question. This
technique requires students to think individually about the topic and share ideas to the class.
Fishbowl
The discussion strategy will help students practice being contributors and listeners in a group
conversation.
Whip around pass
Actively engages students and encourages participation by all. Students write down responses
to a question or prompt given to them by the teacher and quickly share their responses to the
class and students have to pay attention carefully to their classmate’s responses to compare
their own.
Exit slips
Written student’s responses to questions that teacher post at the end of the class and lesson.
This quick informal assessments will able teachers to assess students their understanding of the
material.
OTHER TEACHING STRATEGIES
Peer teaching
Gallery walk
Hand-on learning
Note taking
Read aloud
Identifying similarities and differences
Music and sing
Journaling
Self-talk
Scaffolding questions
Student reflection
Positive reinforcement
Homework practice
Repetition and practice
Graphic organizers
Are simple and effective tool to help students brainstorm and organize their facts and ideas in a
visual representation.
Some of them are:
Fishbone Diagram
Venn diagram
Flow chart
Problem-solution chart
Cluster word web
Inverted triangle
5 W’s chart
Sequence chart
Tree chart
Story map
KWL chart
(What I know) (What I want to know) (What I learned)