Before and After Strategy - To help students articulate what they thought they knew before, during and after a particular inquiry topic.
Thinking Mirrors Strategy - A graphic organiser which mirrors how students’ thinking starts, changes and builds throughout an inquiry topic.
Venn Diagram Strategy - Information is gathered and placed within/without intersecting circles as labelled to show various individual aspects and where there are crossovers or commonalities.
KWL Strategy - A chart which shows prior knowledge, questions students have and finally what they have learnt. It can be completed individually or in groups.
Y Chart Strategy - A chart which encourages students to identify what something looks, sounds and feels like. It can completed individually or in groups.
Question Web Strategy - A simple graphic organiser structured like a mind map on which students write down all of the different ‘wonderings’ and questions they have about a topic.
Headlines - To write a headline for a topic or issue that summarises and captures a key aspect that the student feels is significant and important.
See Think Wonder - To encourage students to make careful observations and notice key messages or thoughts, possible connections and share any wonderings for further exploration.
Questioning Strategy - Students write down questions they have during the course of an inquiry topic and once they have adequately answered them, either through research, working with peers or consulting with the teacher, will write down their understandings.
3-2-1 Bridge - To activate prior knowledge by encouraging students to reveal their first thoughts, ideas, questions and understanding about the inquiry and then connecting these to new thinking after an opportunity for dialogue or new learning.
Compass Points - This strategy invites students to consider an issue, idea or proposition from different perspectives.
Give One Get One - This strategy provides an opportunity for students to share their thinking and gain a perspective of other students’ thinking to build on their understanding and potentially reshape their thinking.
Hot Seat - To encourage students to share information and their perspective about a character from a piece of Scripture to the class by placing the student in the shoes of the character.
The 4 Cs - To encourage the reading and revisiting of texts in a focused and purposeful way that enables students to delve beneath the surface and go beyond first impressions.
Dot-to-Dot Connections Strategy - From a given list of words, students make connections by drawing lines and writing the connections close to the line.
PMI Chart Strategy - Students record what they believe to be the pluses, minuses and interesting points on a particular aspect of a topic or experience.
Shape Up Your Thinking Strategy - A graphic organiser which uses three different shapes to prompt students to reflect on their learning. It can be completed individually or in a group.
Bridge Learning Reflection Strategy - A graphic organiser which allows students to reflect upon what they used to think, how their thinking has changed and what enabled or helped this shift.
Summarising Strategy - Students are given the chance to write an email to a person in which they explain what they have learnt about in an inquiry topic.
I Used To Think ... But Now I Think - To help students reflect on their thinking about a topic or issue and explore how and why that thinking has changed.
