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Student-owned Strategies - CRISS

ABC Brainstorming Mental Imagery Selective Underlining or Highlighting
Anticipation Guide Mind Streaming
Carousel Brainstorming One Sentence Summaries Semantic Feature Analysis
Cause-Effect Two-Column Notes Pattern Puzzles Sentence & Word Expansion
Persuasive Paragraph Spool Papers
Concentric Circles Discussion Picture Notes Sticky-note Discussion
Power Thinking Story Plans
Concept of Definition Map Pre-Post Reading Maps Summarizing
Conclusion-Support Notes Problem Analysis Think-Pair-Share
Content Frames Problem-Solution-Consequences Three Minute Pause
Content Clues (Used with Vocabulary Words) Problem-Solution Notes Triangular Comparison Diagram
Contrast and Compare Chart Problem_Solving Organizer Twelve Minute Study
Discussion Web Process Notes Venn Diagram
Double-Entry Reflective Journals Proposition-Support Vocabulary Flash Cards
Frayer Model Question-Answer Relationships (QARs) Vocabulary Mapping
Free-Writes Entries Word Combining (Formerly Sentence Synthesis)
History-Change Frame RAFT Word Elaboration (Formerly Capsule Vocabulary)
Hypothesis-Evidence Read-and-Say-Something
K-W-L Plus Read-Recall-Check-Summarize Writing Templates (Formerly Framed Paragraphs)
Magnet Summaries Roles Within Cooperative Teams You Ought to be in Pictures
Main Idea-Detail Notes

Strategic Learning Models

 

 

 

 

 

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Keep an eye on this page as it grows with examples of how the strategies are being used in the classroom with students or in Level 1 training.