Strategies

What are some examples of pre/during/post strategies? How do they help students?

Wow! if i would have known this was going to be a question for our blogs I would have taken notes on the strateiges the other day in class. :(

One thing that I do know is that any of the strategies that i will talk about can be applied to pre, during, and post.

For example: Questioning is a big one. you can ask the students questions before to get them thinking about the topic. questions can be asked during so they have a chance to predict or practive inferencing or so that they can make connections. Questions can be done post for assessment of comprehension.
Brainstorming can also be done before, during, and after a lesson.
A really good one is visualizing because it makes the students create a picture in thier head and can be used before, during, and after.
There are many more strategies that can be applied to all three, and another important thing is that strategies can be used in combination. For example in questioning in it other strategies are found like; inferencing, activating background knowledge, connecting, predicting, and summarizing.(All of which can also be done on their own.)

The second questions is how do all these strategies help students? All the general strategies that we find in language arts can be applied to every other aspect in learning. These strategies can even be used outside of the classroom, which is why it is very important to practice these strategies with your children. Although they are learning them for the purpose of language arts we can help them realize that these are problem solving strategies that can help them in any subject in school and with any problem outside of school.