Advance organizers are instructional strategies that prepare students for new information by building connections to prior knowledge and providing organizational structure. They take away the surprise of new content by giving students cues about what they will learn. Different types of advance organizers include expository, graphic, narrative, and skimming organizers, each using different formats like outlines, stories, pictures, or previews to achieve these goals. Advance organizers help students focus on the new material and make connections between old and new information.

1. Advance Organizers High-Yield Instructional Strategy

2. In a Nutshell: Prepares students for what they are about to learn. Takes the surprise out of what is to come. Builds Connections Organizes new information Advance Organizers

3. What It Does… Advance Organizers Takes away surprise Helps students retrieve prior knowledge Focuses them on new information Provides organizational cues Tool to make connections

4. What It Is Not A review of what was covered previously A simple overview Recalling what was done last week Telling students about tomorrow Stating the objectives Advance Organizers

5. Types Advance Organizers Expository Graphic Skimming Narrative

6. Expository Advance Organizers Provide meaning & purpose Example: T-chart Brief descriptions

7. Student Links/Notes List Important Facts/Information

8. Narrative Advance Organizers A story; incorporate ideas in story telling Stories can make unfamiliar seem personal, familiar Stimulates thinking & personal connections

9. Advance Organizers

10. A Picture book or Video Clip

11. Skimming Advance Organizers Preview important information Pre-reading; SQ3R (Survey, Question, Read, Recite, Review)

12. Graphic Advance Organizers Guidance on what’s important Visually represent information Helps see important ideas in visual patterns

13. Frayer Model Advance Organizers Definition Non-examples Examples What it looks like…..

14. Resources & References Classroom Instruction that Works by Robert Marzano http://eimspd.pbworks.com/ http://tech4hyis.pbworks.com/ SQ3R sites: http://www.mrsm.addr.com/sq3r.html http://www.ucc.vt.edu/stdysk/sq3r.html http://www.studygs.net/texred2.htm