Glad strategies pp

1. GLAD Strategies
By Helmi Temple

2. Cognitive Content Dictionary
•Choose vocabulary
word
•Predict meaning in
groups
•Learn and write
correct meaning
•Sketch word and use
in a sentence

3. Inquiry Chart
•Discuss and list what
you KNOW about a
topic
•List what you WANT
to know
•The chart will be
processed as the unit
progresses

4. Narrative Input Chart
•Story mural created
by teacher
•Teacher tells a story
and adds pictures in
appropriate spots of
the story
•Next day students put
word cards or speech
bubbles on mural as
story is retold

5. Sentence Construction/Patterning
Chart
•Work with parts of speech
•Key noun is identified
•Sentences are built by
adding adjectives before,
a verb after, and
prepositional phrases
•Sentences are sung to
the tune of “Farmer in
the Dell”

6. Choral Reading/Response/Echo
•Teacher asks
questions and
students give answer
as group
•Echo is having
students repeat what
teacher says

7. Pictorial Input Chart
•Teacher talks and
sketches (over light
outline) with marker to
illustrate a new
concept
•Key vocabulary words
are added
•Questions are asked
to engage students

8. Observation Chart
•Students observe
pictures and write
observations,
comments or
questions

9. Process Grids
•Use information
learned in unit
•Categorize it on a
chart
•Teacher provides
headings

10. Cooperative Strip Paragraph
•Teacher writes topic
sentence in black from a
process grid
•Table groups come up
with sentences that
support it from the unit
(wall charts)
•Teacher monitors to
make sure ideas are
different
•All contribute to the
paragraph editing and
revising as needed as a
group