These are additional teaching strategies for hooks and consolidations that can be used in lessons instead of what has been suggested in individual lesson structures.
As the teacher, who bests knows their students, feel free to substitute what has been added with another strategy for hooks and consolidations in order that your students gain the most benefit from your lesson.
As the teacher, who bests knows their students, feel free to substitute what has been added with another strategy for hooks and consolidations in order that your students gain the most benefit from your lesson.
Hook Strategies
- Short animations
- Making a connection with previous knowledge
- Showing a picture
- Story telling
- Reading a newspaper article together
- Cartoons/ Images with guiding questions
- Brainteasers/ Lateral thinking puzzles
- Quote/ Film Clip/ Newspaper Article
- Videos with guiding questions
- KWL Chart
- Think-pair-share Resource 1 Resource 2
- Four Corners
- Placemat
- Brainstorming
Consolidation and Review Strategies
- Gallery Walk
- Online Quizzes
- "Ask it basket" - write a questions about the lesson on post it and put in a basket. Take up the questions as a class.
- Snowball fight- write a question or comment about the lesson, crumble up the paper, and throw it across the room. Pick up another piece that someone else has thrown. Answer their question and hand it in as an exit slip.
- Summarize lesson in 5 bullet points and share it with your pears
- L column of KWL Chart
- Fishbone Organizer
- Spider Organizer
- Mind Mapping/Concept Mapping
- Venn Diagrams Resource 1 Resource 2
- Reflective discussion with scripted guiding questions
- Positive, Minus, Interesting
- Graffiti
- Think-pair-share Resource 1 Resource 2
- Discussion with scripted guided questions
- Exit Slips
- Quiz, Quiz, Trade
- Give One, Get One
- Shaping Up Review
- Family Feud
- Tic-Tac-Toe, What Do You Know?
- Around-the-Room Review or Whip Around
- Will the Winners Lose?
- Jeopardy Game
- Round Table or Round Robin
- I Have, Who Has Game- Loop Games
- Role Play
- Traffic Lights - Students use red, green and yellow cards to indicate their level of understanding