Ivins, Utah
Luane Genest
Fifth-Grade Teacher
Sunset Heights Elementary School
Nashua, New Hampshire
Tara Looney
K–6 Reading Interventionist
Concordia Elementary School
Concordia, Missouri
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Table of Contents
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Foreword by Rick Wormeli
INTRODUCTIONManeuver Your Footwork With Four Steps
Part I: Setting Up Your Classroom Dance Floor
CHAPTER 1Choreograph Your Instruction With the Cha-Chas Steps
What Does Neuroscience Say About Learning?
What Is the Formative Assessment Process?
What Are the Characteristics of the Formative Assessment Process?
Is There Research to Support the Formative Assessment Process?
What Is Differentiated Instruction?
Is There Research to Support Differentiation?
CHAPTER 2Move Smoothly From Broad Ideas to Smaller Ideas
How Do You Identify the Standard?
How Do You Identify the Learning Target?
How Do You Choose the Main Formative Assessment?
How Do You Choose Criteria for Success?
CHAPTER 3Get to Know Your Dance Partners
How Can You Learn About Students?
Why Are Preassessing, Activating Prior Knowledge, Pre-Exposing, and Priming Worthwhile?
Self-Evaluation Graffiti Corners
Anticipation Guide
Draw It, Web It, Write It
Knowledge Framing
Find an Expert
Show What You Know
Four-Choice Processing
Kinesthetic Vocabulary
The Big Picture
Summary
Anticipation Guide
Draw It, Web It, Write It
Knowledge Framing Prior to Reading the Text
Find an Expert
Show What You Know
Kinesthetic Vocabulary Cards
The Big Picture
Part II: Putting the Cha-Chas Steps Together
CHAPTER 4Take Step One: Chunk (Instruct)
What Is a Chunk and Why Does the Brain Like It?
How Long Should a Chunk Be?
How Do