Lenny VerMaas ESU #6 Professional Development Consultant My Pages Home STARS and AYP Content Area Forms Picture Book Corner Places To Visit Math Cadre Activities Instructional Strategies About Me Discussion Group Related Links ESU 6 Instructional Strategies Resources for Instructional Strategies Vocabulary Vocabulary click here for vocabulary resources and sites Homework Homework click here for homework resources and sites Similarities and Differences (Compare and Contrast)   Analogy Graphic Organizer is a word document graphic organizer to display and explain analogies Comparison Matrix word document table to compare two or more concepts Frayer Model 2 word document to look at word in four different ways Venn 2 or 3 Circle word document to comare two or three concepts Venn 4 circle word document with 4 circle Venn diagram in color and black and white  Notetaking Flash Card Plus is a spreadsheet that create flash cards, name/definitions tent, cards for inside outside circle and "I have, Who has cards". Fishbone Chart  word document graphic organizer to take notes Lotus Chart is a word document with Marzano's instructional strategies is a lotus chart.   Lotus Chart Blank a word document print as blank or fill in with your categories. Lotus Notes II word document slightly different format blank Create Lotus Notes a spreadsheet which allows you to make your own lotus notes with categories filled in.  Note instructions at the bottom of the page to download spreadsheets. Mini Book word document with directions to fold paper to make a minibook T-chart word document with T-chart and "Pause and Reflect" to help summarize Setting Objectives and Provide Feedback Correct Solution word document to provide students feedback on questions missed and then corrected  Questioning What is My ... word document to organize students questions as they seek unknown concept  Internet Sites Instructional Strategies ESU site Educational Service Unit technology consultants have developed some material to go with the "Nine Instructional Strategies that work" Classroom Instruction That Works in graphic organizer format.  http://www.inspiration.com/resources/index.cfm inspriation examples Word templates of the 6 types of graphic organizers listed in Marzano's book Several Graphic Organizers are at this site to be down loaded or printed. Examples of graphic organizers and how they can be used in the class www.eduplace.com has graphic organizers for 6 trait  writing. Books for Instructional Strategies Classroom Instruction that Works, Research Based Strategies for Increasing Student Achievement by Robert Marzano ISBN No. 0-87120-504-1 A Handbook for Classroom Instruction That Works, by Robert Marzano Internet Sites Instructional Strategies in Mathematics Deb Romanek NDE web site NCTM National Council of Teachers of Mathematics Improving Student Achievement in Mathematics by Douglas Grouws This publication can be printed from the Internet Books for Instructional Strategies in Mathematics ED Thoughts, What We Know About Mathematics Teaching and Learning edited by John Sutton and Alice Krueger, McREL ISBN No. 1893476-0202 A Research Companion to Principles and Standards for School Mathematics, NCTM ISBN 0-87353-537-5 Lessons Learned from Research, NCTM ISBN 0-87353-526-X To download EXCEL spreadsheet files do the following: On a windows machine do the following: On a Apple machine do the following: Right click on the desired spreadsheet Select Save Target As Choose a location to save the file Start EXCEL Within EXCEL select "File", "Open" Select "types of file" = "all files" Click the mouse and hold on the desired spreadsheet. Select "Download link to disk" Choose a location to save the file Start EXCEL Within EXCEL select "File", "Open" Select "types of file" = "all files" If you are having problems downloading spreadsheets feel free to contact me. 402-761-3341 or lvermaas@esu6.org   Educational Service Unit #6, Milford, Nebraska