Zooming In and OutThis strategy helps students analyze a concept in two different ways. It can be used as both a vocabulary and a text comprehension strategy. It first asks a student to rank important information about the concept and is then asked to list what the concept would not be expected to do or tell us. Then students find and think about similar and related concepts and write a summary statement.
|
How do I use it?
1. Identify a concept that is new or mostly unfamiliar to students.
2. As a class, have students brainstorm what they might already know about the concept.
3. Have students read a text and then discuss and decide what information in the text is most and least important (zooming in).
4. Students discuss and identify information in the text that is similar to and related to the concept (zooming out).
5. Students then discuss and decide what is not related to the concept (zooming in).
6. Finally, have students write a summary statement (zooming out).
2. As a class, have students brainstorm what they might already know about the concept.
3. Have students read a text and then discuss and decide what information in the text is most and least important (zooming in).
4. Students discuss and identify information in the text that is similar to and related to the concept (zooming out).
5. Students then discuss and decide what is not related to the concept (zooming in).
6. Finally, have students write a summary statement (zooming out).