SIM Learning Strategies

Contacts: [[mmstowe, Mary Stowe]] and [[chpeterson, Christine Peterson]]

SIM Learning Strategy Visual

Word Mapping

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The Inference Strategy 

Fundamentals of Paraphrasing and Summarizing Strategy

Fundamentals in the Sentence Writing Strategy
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SIM Cooperative Thinking Strategies Series

The SIM Cooperative Thinking Strategies Series out of the University of Kansas, Center for Research on Learning, are a set of programs for teaching students the specific skills needed to cooperate and work successfully with others in a variety of academic, social, and work-related settings.

Possiblele Selves 

The Possible Selves: Nurturing Student Motivation Strategy provides explicit lessons designed to increase student motivation.  

Social Emotional Learning

SIM Learning Strategies Quick Guide

In 2015, the What Works Clearinghouse (WWC) identified the SIM(TM) Learning Strategies as having potentially positive effects on reading achievement through the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) report on the Striving Readers Initiative.  (Link to the IES report)  

Expanded Unit Map for Learning Strategies