Chunking Content

9. Chunking Content Into "Digestible Bites"

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What is chunking?  The teacher chunks content into small bites for students. In presenting new declarative knowledge, they put concepts that go together by creating topics or steps.  In procedural, the chunks are comprised of steps.  Use pre-assessment data to vary the size of the chunk.  You can move from foundational concepts to more complex concepts that build on each other.  Bullet points are one way to chunk; encourage students to take notes, summarize the content being taught, and write down questions.  Check for understanding while presenting each chunk.

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• This document (especially pages 5-10) provide strategies for how to chunk as well as sample sentence starters to begin to implement chunking while presenting concepts and information.  It also includes reproducible papers and other ideas to help with chunking in the classroom.

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