Strategy: Think-Pair-Share (Bridges)
Detailed Description: Think-Pair-Share is a collaborative learning strategy in which students work together to answers questions about an assigned reading(s). This technique requires students to (1) think individually about a topic or answer to a question, and (2) share ideas with classmates. Discussing answers with a partner serves to maximize participation, focus attention and engage students in comprehending the reading material.
Practical Application: Half of the students in a class are assigned a text while the other half are assigned a different text. As/after they read, they answer questions relating to the topics of the text and the author’s point of view. Then, students are paired with someone with the opposite text and switch. They answer similar questions related to the other text. They then go back to the student with whom they switched texts and discuss how the texts are similar in the subject of the texts as well as the author’s approach to the subjects. They record their findings on paper and share aloud with the rest of the class.
TRAP: This strategy is included in Instruction: A Models Approach, written in 1999 by Thomas Estes, Susan Mintz, and Mary Alice Gunter. The strategy makes instructional models clear and relevant for readers by placing them within a standards-based and instructional aligned process. The authors support the instructional model of Think-Pair-Share by applying current research and evidence-based practice to the preparation of objectives, differentiation practices, and assessment options. It may be applied in both elementary and secondary classes in a variety of content areas.
Estes, T., Gunter, M. A., and Mintz, S. (1999). Instruction: a models approach. Allyn and Bacon: Boston, MA.
Strategy:Comparison Matrix (Freeman)
Detailed Description:Students will be asked to create a chart that they have to label. Students will have subjects or categories on the top row of boxes. Then characteristics or details down the left side of the boxes. Then the students fill in what is similar and then corresponds information such as themes and topics.
(n.d.) Retrieved February 22, 2015, from http://www.sde.ct.gov/sce/lib/sde/pdf/curriculum/section7.pdf
Practical Application: While discussing a topic, students can use a matrix, or some other form of an organizer, to list out two different thoughts or theories. The students will then be able to see the similarities and differences between the thoughts and be able to debate or write a paper defending one side or the other.
TRAP: The comparison matrix strategy is a useful tool that allows students to see information in another way, outside of PowerPoints or jumbled notes. They can sift through a text, and write the important things down. It eliminates students writing down information that they don’t need. 
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