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IDEAS Summer Academy Professional Development
Using Foldables to Enhance
Student Achievement
Presented by Lora Drum
What are foldables?
✓3 dimensional interactive graphic organizers that students create
✓Can be used as a self-check
study guide
✓Can be used at any level and
with any subject area
✓Learning/Assessment tools
Why use foldables?
✓ Fun & motivating, hands-on
approach ✓ As a study guide ✓ Note taking to help organize
information ✓ Reach all learners ✓ Students retain information ✓ Alternative assessments ✓ Replace the use of
worksheets/reduce copy counts ✓ Projects ✓ Integration of subject areas ✓ Improve student note-taking skills ✓ Hold students accountable
✓ Introducing new vocabulary
words ✓ Introducing a new skill, topic,
or concept ✓ Before a chapter, lesson, story,
etc. ✓ During the lesson ✓ After completing the chapter,
lesson, story, etc. ✓ Guided Instruction or Guided
Reading ✓ Writing process ✓ Review ✓ Anytime- daily
When do we use foldables?
of input to the human brain
is visual
• Graphic organizers (such as foldables) can:
- help students focus on text structure as they read
- provide tools used to visually represent relationships
in text
- help students write well-organized summaries of text (Put Reading First: The Research Building Blocks for Teaching Children to Read)
- Students are actively engaged in the instructional process and learning as they create foldables Classroom Instruction That Works: Research Based
Strategies for Increasing Student Achievement by Robert Marzano strategies are integrated (identification of similarities & differences, summarizing & note-taking, nonlinguistic representations, questions, cues, and advanced organizers, etc.)
And the research says...
• Note Taking research...
- Effective note taking can make the difference between passing and failing ( Hughes & Suritsky, 1994)
- Independent note taking increases active
participation in the learning process, leading to improvement in memory of information ( Ruhl & Suritsky, 1995)
- Listening and then receiving notes is not as
effective as taking one’s own notes. (Carrier, 1983; Hartley, 1983; Katayama & Robinson, 2000)
- Graphically organized notes teach more than
just the facts as they increase student involvement with the information, increasing higher order thinking (Robinson et. al., 1998)
- Students had a 34 percentile gain when
taught how to summarize information and take effective notes. (Robert J. Marzano, Classroom Strategies that Work)
How should we use foldables?
• Teacher directed, modeling
• Guided practice
• Alternative assessments
• Independent practice- students create own folds/projects