Strategy # 21

Cues, Questions, & Advance Organizers

Expository Advance Organizers
Basics:
Time Allotted No time limit: used throughout course
Room Arrangement Normal desk arrangement
Materials Handout
Process Directions:
1. Teacher creates a document with useful items for the students to reference throughout a
lesson/unit/course.
2. Teacher distributes the handout to the class
3. Teacher explains to students that the handout will be very helpful throughout the
lesson/unit/course and that the students should keep it somewhere safe and easy to access.
When:
Introducing new material
Example:
The teacher can give the class an expository organizer that lists all of the trigonometry
identities and formulas at the beginning of a trigonometry course. This organizer would
be a helpful reference for the students for the rest of the school year since those formulae
are difficult to memorize.
Source: Stone, C. (1983). A meta-analysis of advanced organizer studies. Journal of
Experimental Education, 51(7), 194-199.