Activating Strategies are powerful tools that teachers use to engage students at the beginning of the lesson by activating prior knowledge or providing an experience that will support information to be learned.
Activating what students already know about the content supports comprehension.
Activating prior knowledge gives you an opportunity to learn what students already know about the content.
Activating Strategies are short. They should only take about 10% of the total lesson time.
Activating Strategies are always connected to the Lesson Essential Question which should be related to the content to be learned.
Activating Strategies could also be experiences that provide all students with necessary background knowledge.
During Activating Strategies, students are involved and thinking.