Example: Think Pair Share

  1. 1. Offer a higher-level question related to the topic you are about to study.

  2. 2.Group students into pairs.

3.  Pass out a Think-Pair-Share worksheet to each student.

4.  Give students 5 minutes to write down their individual thoughts in the "Think" section of the worksheet.

5.     Then, in pairs, have groups share their individual thoughts.  Pairs should summarize their common thoughts in the "Pair" section of their worksheet.

6.     Finally, pairs choose one major idea to share with the entire class.  This should be written in the "Share" section of their worksheet.

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Step 3: Access Prior Knowledge

  1. ■Allows the students to build on their previous knowledge or skills

Some effective ways to access prior knowledge:
-Recall events from a previous lesson

-Relate previous information to new topic

-Show how new topic is related to real life events

Tricia Leigh

Students will dig into their Long Term Memory to retrieve what they already know.