Inquiry
Writing
Reading
Collaboration
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Writing allows students to think in complex ways, build critical thinking skills
and developing knowledge of oneself and the outside world.
Students in the AVID classroom use writing in a variety of ways to extend
and generate thinking, analyze and organize their own thought-processes,
and revise and review current understandings.
• Prewrite
• Draft
• Respond
• Revise
• Edit
• Final draft
• Class and Textbook Notes
• Learning Logs/Journals
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Strategies
• Skilled Questioning
• Socratic Seminars
• Quickwrite &
Discussion
• Critical Thinking
Activities
• Writing Questions
• Open-Mindedness
Activities
Students learn best by engaging with their own
thinking process and this kind of engagement
encourages a sense of ownership over their
learning. The AVID student is an equal
participant in a Socratic tutorial session that
engages him/her in asking critical questions,
pursuing understanding and potentially revising
his/her own thinking. Students use Costa’s model
of questioning that levels learning from lowerlevel gather and recall to higher-level application
and evaluation.
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Collaboration actively engages each
student in the process of learning,
because it relies on the multitude of
opinions and evidence each student
brings to the discussion. Tutorials
reinforce previous learning and
encourage students to think ahead.
Students will internalize what they
have studied and learned if they are
able to collaborate with others and
make connections.
Strategies
• Group Projects
• Study Groups
• Jigsaw Activities
• Read-Arounds
• Response/Edit/Revision Groups
• Collaborative Activities
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AVID focuses on reading to increase comprehension, awareness of the
different reasons for reading and understanding of the different structures of
texts. Strategies instruct students on how to use context clues to determine
the meaning of unknown words, predicting, visualizing, and monitoring for
comprehension.
Strategies
• SQ3R ( Survey, Question, Read, Recite,Review)
• KWL (What I know; What to learn; What I learned)
• Reciprocal teaching
• Think-alouds
• Literary circles
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