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  • Strategic Instruction Model (SIM)
  • SIM Learning Strategies

    • SIM Learning Strategies

    SIM Learning Strategy Visual

    Word Mapping


    Contacts:  Mary Stowe or Christine Peterson

    Word Mapping

    The Inference Strategy 


    Contacts:  Mary Stowe or Christine Peterson 


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    Fundamentals of Paraphrasing and Summarizing Strategy


    Contact:  Mary Stowe or Christine Peterson 

    Standard File

    Fundamentals in the Sentence Writing Strategy

    Contact: Mary Stowe or Christine Peterson

    Fundamentals of the Sentence Writing Strategy

     Social Emotional Learning

    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.

    Possible Selves 

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

    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

     

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