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=**Cues/Questions/Advance Organizers - Chapter FOUR**= The instructional strategy //cues, questions, and advance organizers// focuses on enhancing students' ability to retrieve, use, and organize information about a topic.

The authors of Using Technology with Classroom Instruction that Works have seven recommendations for classroom practice related to this subject (p. 74):
 * 1) Use expository advance organizers.
 * 2) Use narrative advance organizers.
 * 3) Teach students skimming as a form of advance organizer.
 * 4) Teach students how to use graphic advance organizers.
 * 5) Use explicit cues.
 * 6) Ask questions that elicit inferences.
 * 7) Ask analytic questions.

They also recommend the following resources that focus on the concept of "higher-level" or "essential" questions:
 * [|From Trivial Pursuit to Essential Questions and Standards-Based Learning]
 * [|Applying Bloom's Taxonomy]
 * [|Bloom's Taxonomy Model Questions and Key Words]
 * [|For the Best Answers, Ask Tough Questions]
 * [|Grade Level Social Studies Enduring Understanding and Essential Questions]

Word processing programs are extremely versatile and well suited as tools to create advance organizers, whether expository, narrative, or graphic.
 * Word Processing Applications**
 * Expository advance organizers = brochures, definitions, rubrics, and programs.
 * [|Narrative] advance organizers = stories, articles, or artistic works.
 * Graphic advance organizers = tables, charts, or artistic works.

Various Resources for Graphic Organizers >> [] >> [] >> [] >> [] >> [] >> []
 * EverythingESL organizers
 * Graphic Organizers. This site provides a chart with explanations of a variety of organizers and how to use them in the classroom.
 * SCORE Language Arts. A collection of graphic organizers.
 * Graphic Organizers from NCREL.
 * Graphic Organizers from TeacherVision. A collection of printable graphic organizers.
 * Education Place Graphic Organizers (An option to print in Spanish)

Use Inspiration to create an organizer for student research. Create a link from the organizer to a specific web page. Sample Inspiration files: [|Modern World History] [|Landmark Cases]

Have students use Inspiration to create a story map or timeline of a specific time period or event. [|American Revolution Timelines]

Have students use Inspiration to create a web showing information gathered and organized in topics and subtopics. Use the outline feature to create an outline for a final report or other project.

[|Web of Eleanor Roosevelt] [|Outline of Eleanor Roosevelt Web] [|Web of Oceanography] [|Outline of Oceanography Web]

Have students outline a topic in Inspiration and export it as a PowerPoint Presentation.

[|Grades 3-5: Inspiration Ideas for Science] [|Grades 3-5: Inspiration Ideas for Social Studies]