5-3-1

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This protocol helps students independently synthesize information, events, or key ideas from a work/body of work. 

Process

  1. Ask students to identify 5 words that represent concepts, ideas, issues, or pervading emotions of the work or body of work.
  2. Place students in groups of 3-5.
  3. Ask students to share their idea, one at a time, in round-robin fashion.  Students can explore the ideas as they emerge.
  4. Ask each group to select 3 central ideas from the group.
  5. Then ask students, “If these 3 ideas were to go into a container with a label, what would that label be?”

Credits

Adapted from: “The Adaptive School:  Strategies and Moves for Facilitating Groups”.  Thinking Collaborative, https://www.thinkingcollaborative.com/as-resources

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