Cranbourne Secondary College PEDAGOGY TOOLBOX – Page 2 – Click on each phase of The Gradual Release of Responsbility to access strategies to support your teaching and learning.

Four Square Reflections

This strategy will help students to: reflect on what they have read using guiding questions to prompt their thinking. Implementation: After completing the focused instruction component of the lesson, students…

Annotating Texts

This strategy will help students to: guided annotation of a text including summarising, circling, underlining and making margin notes, can improve student understanding of new concepts and helps students to…

Concept Mapping

This strategy will help students to: Plan Recap Revise Implementation: Students read a text, topic, or question. Underlining or taking note of the key concepts and ideas in the text,…

Membership Grid

This strategy will help students to: Giving groups a low risk, non-academic topic to discuss before they start to complete collaborative work, helps students to develop friendly working relationships. It…

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Blogging

This strategy will help students to: Create personal journal websites on which a user can type an entry, add images, video and links to other websites. Readers of a blog…

WebQuest

A WebQuest is an inquiry-oriented lesson format in which most or all the information that learners work with comes from the web. This strategy will help students to: Use the…

Formative Assessment…

Literacy Think Aloud

This strategy will help students to: Uncover their own thinking processes as they learn and understand a concept. Implementation: As a student reads a text or performs a task ask…

Literacy Strategies

Top Three List

This strategy will help students to: Consolidate their understanding of current content. Implementation: Mid way through or at the end of the lesson ask students to make a list that…

Literacy Strategies

Save the Last Word for Me!

This strategy will help students to: Prepare to meaningfully participate in collaborative discussions Implementation: Choose two passages of text that do not require extensive introductions before they are read aloud.…

Formative Assessment

A Ticket Out The Door

This strategy will help students to: Demonstrate that they have understood new learning in a lesson Helps students remember and reflect on what they have learnt Promotes students using new…