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Teaching
Ideas and Units - Teaching Strategies
Sequence
Chart
Speaking, listening,
reading and writing
Bands A, B, C, D What
is it?
A cooperative activity in which students learn how to create a sequence
of events or ideas to solve a particular problem and arrange them in a
logical way using a graphic organiser.
What is its purpose?
- To involve
all students in cooperatively speaking, listening and thinking about
an issue.
- To provide
students with opportunities to plan and think logically.
How
do I do it?
- Explain
how a sequence of actions is required to solve problems or achieve a
desired outcome.
- Provide
examples appropriate to the age group of students e.g.
- To make a cup of tea
- To assemble a Kinder Surprise toy
- To find a book in the library
- To recount the story of a TV program
- Show
the sequence chart:
- Have
the students use sticky notes to brainstorm steps or ideas. Write one
on each note.
- You might
like to write the items for very young children.
- Ask the
class to help you put the sticky notes in the sequence boxes, one note
per box.
Divide
the class into groups to try their own sequence chart using these steps:
- Identify
the problem.
- Brain
storm possible steps that might lead to a solution using sticky notes.
- Use the
sequence chart to order these. Write no more than 2 or 3 words in each
box
How
can I adapt it?
- Select
other texts such as news articles, magazine stories, TV shows, biographies,
historic events.
- Provide
students with sequence charts to use with reading a novel.
- For younger
students cut up comics from a newspaper and mix up the frames. Have
students glue them to the sequence chart.
How
can it be used to evaluate students' language learning?
Will check TLOs and Profile Outcomes ...Pam.
Where
can I find out more?
James Bellanca (1991)The Cooperative Think Tank: Practical Techniques
to Teach Thinking in the Cooperative Classroom Hawker Brownlow Education.
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