Deepen your students’ understanding of two important topics — friendship and Big6 — with this fun collaborative unit.

In a standards-based learning environment, the Big6 provides a model that focuses the curriculum on learner-centered activities. In essence, the Big6 becomes a tool that guides students through the information-literacy maze.

“Independence! That’s the goal” says Joyce Pagés. The Big6 approach helps students “take charge of their own learning.” Pagés compares the ways students interact with narrative and expository written material.

More than just extracting needed information, note-taking consists of three steps: Identification of keyword and related words in the researchable questions, skimming and scanning and extracting needed information.

• Read comments... (1 comment so far)