Strategy Scenario Strategy Rehearsal Selecting and Predicting Content Any Subject Title Predicting the Future How to Perform Better on Exams Time Required two 50 minute class periods Target Audience any students in middle school or above Goal of Activity to provide students with strategies to help them select important information from texts and to predict what might be asked on an exam Purpose of Script to provide students with an opportunity to practice the strategies Learning Outcome s Gagne s Taxonomy Intellectual Domain Concepts Learning Outcome s HEO Taxonomy Valuing the importance of the task Learner Characteristics learners do not have to possess any special qualifications Entry Skills learners should be able to read at their grade level notetaking skills should be taught prior PQRST study system should be taught prior to this activity but is not absolutely essential Setting classroom Media chalkboard textbook Process 1 Instructor provides overview of activity and tells the students the goals 2 Instructor lists the strategies for reading a textbook on the chalkboard also reviews the basics of the PQRST study system 3 Students are asked to open their texts and perform the strategies eg looking over the table of contents first skimming the subtopics of the chapters looking for topic sentences within paragraphs predicting what is important in each section associating ideas from their reading 4 Students assigned one to three chapters of reading for the next class 5 Students take a quiz using the notes they took from their text 6 Quizzes are graded in class Strategy Assessment examination of the students notes their performance on quizzes and future tests Author Barry R Nowlin References West C Farmer J Wolff P 1991 Instructional Design Implications from Cognitive Science Englewood Cliffs NJ Prentice Hall
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