Foldables™: Interactive 3-D Organizers for Middle School/High School

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Foldables Interactive 3-D Organizersfor Middle
School/High School

• Darlene M. Wheaton, M.Ed.
• Northwest Tri-County IU 5

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FOLDABLES are

• Interactive graphic organizers
• Student-constructed visual displays used to
  organize information
• Engage students in active learning
• Creates student-ownership
• Ideal tools for diverse learners
• Assist in linking new information to prior
  knowledge

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FOLDABLES are

• Focused on research-based skills
• Marzano research
• Non-linguistic representations have strong
  effects on student achievement
• Explicitly engaging students in the creation of
  nonlinguistic representations
• Stimulates and increases activity in the brain

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FOLDABLES are

• Embedded in or integral to each
• of the nine strategies
• Identifying similarities and differences
• Summarizing and note taking
• Reinforcing effort and providing recognition
• Homework and practice
• Nonlinguistic representations
• Cooperative learning
• Setting objectives and providing feedback
• Generating and testing hypotheses
• Cues, questions, and advance organizers

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FOLDABLES are

• Instructional/learning tool
• Hands-on
• Flexible
• Endless in application
• Show order and completeness of students thought
  process
• Strengths and weaknesses of student understanding
  become clearly evident to the teacher
• English Language Learners
• Short words or phrases

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FOLDABLES are

• Used
• To introduce the learning task
• As advance organizer before the learning task
• As a post organizer
• As student-made study guides

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FOLDABLES are

• Used
• To incorporate skills
• Comparing and contrasting
• Cause and effect
• Similarities and differences
• Vocabulary
• Concepts
• Generalizations
• Ideas
• Theories

• To incorporate skills
• Graphics
• Tables
• Charts
• Diagrams
• Models
• Venn diagrams
• Journals
• Alternative assessment

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FOLDABLES are for

• Differentiating Instruction
• Core Instruction
• Extended Learning
• Alternative form of assessment

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FOLDABLES are for everyone

• IEP to GIEP students
• All levels K 12
• All Areas Academics - Specials

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Basic Folds

• Hamburger
• Hotdog

• Taco
• Shutter
• Burrito