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To help readers comprehend and retain what they read, "brain movies" are suggested. Some say these "brain movies" are like reading-related images. They may outperform Hollywood movies. Teaching students to use mental imagery can help them understand difficult nonfiction and fictional stories. I could also use this for processes and concepts in Science. The article explains how thinking involves verbal and visual-spatial systems using Allan Paivio's dual coding theory. It then suggests ways teachers can help students visualize while reading. This includes using rich, sensory language materials, teaching new ideas before reading, and discussing how reading differs from watching movies.

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I read about games for learning and remembering. If you think back to early childhood years - children learn through play. They are taking this concept and applying it for older students. Playing games that tie in content is a great way to motivate and excite students about learning.

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Resources: Games for Teaching and Review

Strategy: Draw It!

The purpose of this strategy is for students to remember vocabulary words.

I will use this strategy to review vocabulary words across all content.

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Article: Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning

Their number 1 step for helping our students retain knowledge is more low-stakes "quizzing." Our school has been stressing the importance of formative assessments this year, which is in line with this article. Making them use their brain to retrieve the info more often helps them retain that info.

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Dara Zaccagnino

RBG3 Literacy Specialist

This game below is a Kagan strategy that I have used for years in the classroom and the students really liked doing it. Sometimes I would change it up and play music and when the music stopped they would pair up with a partner. I would also ask them to share what their partner said.

Stand Up, Hand Up, Pair Up

Students stand up, put their hands up, and quickly find a partner.

1. Teacher says stand up, hand up, pair up

2. Students stand up and keep one hand in the air until they find a partner who’s not a teammate.

3. Teacher gives question or topic

4. Partners share.

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I read the Teaching Through Games article. One game that I read about and want to use is the snowball fight. Students write information or facts on a piece of paper. Then, crumble it up and get ready for a snowball fight. Students pick up the snowball and find the person who it belongs to. Then, students can interview each other regarding what they wrote on their paper.

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Mara - 8th grade. This is especially good for when in a block class that is over an hour in length. Give the students a five-minute break to move around and discuss. Also functional is having the students look for responses from someone outside their elbow partner or group. This time, while still instructional, gives the students a moment to breathe.

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I think spaced reviews through games (like Toughie Charts) could be an effective strategy for including a review of skills in a game like strategy that is done in a center for review. Any skills that students may struggle with becomes part of the chart and that can be used to review those skills with their peers.

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I teach a very introductory Spanish class, Draw it game would be great on whiteboards to learn or review vocabulary words. Students would also love to do the snowball fight where they write some things about themselves and then get to wad it up and throw it - they could use the target language to figure out who wrote it (this is hard for my type-A personality)

I also watched the youtube- 9 ways to study - this would be helpful to share with the students as they are still very much developing their time management skills in 6th grade

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Katie Pipho 8th grade history and geography~

Commercial Breaks I really like the idea of kids teaching each other as well as getting them to have fun. Dive a little deeper into whatever that topic might be.

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Resource: Games for Teaching and Review

Strategy: Snowball Fight

The purpose of this activity is for students to write something about themselves and have their peers guess who wrote it.

This would be a good activity for allowing student to express who they are and also allow their peers to get learn about one another. This would be a good activity to do in the beginning of the school year.

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Why Students Forget—and What You Can Do About It

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Why Students Forget—and What You Can Do About It

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This is really interesting. It contrasts what we used to think about forgetting as a process of LOSS with new research that suggests that it's more like a optimization for cognition where our brains focus and prune unneeded stuff. The "recent" (2017) article is contrasts remembering (persistence) with forgetting (transience) and the authors suggest we really need to be concerned with our ability to retrieve info for decision making. They suggest that to affect this memory persistence we need to practice the recollection and use of the info, like with think-pair-share, peer explanation, and practice. Or more academically (from the paper), "reactivation of neural patterns that were present during encoding"

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Resources: Teaching through Games

Purpose: Relearning through Recall and Active Participation

How to Use: Use games that require students to recall provide answers or generate questions as a way to assess background knowledge and what they have already learned.

Jeopardy and Who Wants to Be a Millionaire are examples of games to use.

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I read the article about learning and motivating through games. Unbeknown to me, I practice several of these games. Snowball fight is a fav of ours to review and Guess who is a fun way to use "risky" words and adjectives!

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Make it Stick- Repeating one skill to practice is not the best path for long term memory. Space out practice over a long period and mix it up with other activities. Also, provide fewer problems rather than overloading students with more problems. The information will transfer into the long term memory.