ENL CE Course 18: Cognitive Strategies

Review key cognitive strategies to help students develop thinking skills and processes that enable them to learn more effectively.

Course curriculum

1. Cognitive Strategies
2. Agenda
1. What are cognitive strategies?
1. Why use cognitive strategies?
2. Cognitive strategies
3. Examples of Cognitive strategies
4. Assessment #1
5. Assessment #1 Explanation
1. Sorting and Classifying
2. More on Sorting and Classifying
3. What is a word sort?
4. Why use word sorts?
5. Kinds of word sorts
6. Common Core State Standards: Small Group Word Sort
7. Assessment #2
8. Assessment #2 Explanation
1. Note-taking and paraphrasing
2. Samples of note-taking formats
3. Note-taking
4. Visual note-taking
5. Visual note-taking
6. Visual note-taking
7. Paraphrasing
8. Paraphrasing
9. Steps in paraphrasing
10. Assessment #3
11. Assessment #3 Explanation
12. Summary
13. Summarizing
14. The GIST
15. Informational Text
16. Creative Summarizing
17. Teacher prompts for creative summaries
18. Somebody, Wanted, But, So, Then
19. Assessment #4
20. Assessment #4 Explanation
1. Elaboration
2. Elaboration strategies
3. Elaboration strategies
1. Visualizing
2. Making Inferences to Read Between the Lines
3. Predicting
4. Strategies for predicting
5. Graphic organizer for prediction
6. Graphic organizer for making prediction
7. Graphic organizer for prediction
8. Assessment #5
9. Assessment #5 Explanation
10. Making Predictions to Help with Reading Comprehension
1. Questions and cues
1. Classroom implementation
2. Using guided questions
3. Summary
4. Contact information
5. Thank you

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