Fits together like a puzzle
Inquiry
Writing
Reading
Collaboration
The foundation of the AVID
Curriculum is WICR
WRITING
COLLABORATION
INQUIRY
READING
Writing is basic to thinking, learning, and growth. It
allows students to think in complex ways, building
critical thinking skills and developing knowledge of
oneself and the outside world.
Writing helps clarify and order experience, while
simultaneously demonstrating how much one knows
about a topic. The more fluent the writer, the more
successfully one can compete academically.
Strategies used in AVID
•Prewrite
•Draft
•Respond
•Revise
•Edit
•Final draft
•Class and Textbook Notes
•Learning Logs/Journals
Inquiry-based learning focuses on the student as
the learner, developing skillful, open-ended
questioning skills. Being able to recognize different
levels of questions is beneficial for all students in
many areas of learning. Students in AVID understand
the three levels of questions design by Art Costa which
is critical for student success.
Strategies
•Skilled Questioning
•Socratic Seminars
•Quickwrite/Discussion
•Critical Thinking Activities
•Writing Questions
•Open-Mindedness Activites
Collaboration takes many forms in the AVID Classroom,
most commonly in tutorial groups. Tutorials, which are
essential in AVID, 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
Reading is the key to understanding in all content
Areas. Keeping reading as a focus in AVID develops
Reading comprehension, awareness of the different
Reasons for reading, and understanding of the
Different structures of texts. Readers read for three
Purposes: 1) For information, 2) For problem
Solving and finally 3) For recreation or enjoyment.
Strategies
•SQ3R ( Survey, Question, Read, Recite,Review)
•KWL (What I know; What to learn; What I learned)
•Reciprocal teaching
•Think-alouds
•Literary circles
The Teacher
The teacher said to the students,
“Come to the edge.”
They replied,
“We might fall”
The teacher said again,
“Come to the edge.”
and they responded
“It’s too high”
“COME TO THE EDGE!”
The teacher demanded.
And they came.
And the teacher pushed them.
And they
………Flew