List-Group-Label
List-Group-Label is exactly what it sounds like. You provide a list of terms or concepts to your students. Students group those according to shared characteristics. Let them determine what characteristics are important. Once they have finished, they are to determine an appropriate label that fits all of the terms or concepts in each group (List, Group, Label, n.d.). This strategy works to improve students critical thinking skills by processing prior information or from a reading, to come up with similarities between objects, ideas, or things.
Benefits of this strategy (List, Group, Label, n.d.)
Lessons using List-Group-Label
1. Put students into small groups and give each a poster board.
2. Provide students with a list of works/achievements made during the Renaissance.
3. Using their notes and their books, they are to group and label the pieces together under the label of who made them. Categories could be: Leornardo Da Vinci, Michelangelo, Machiavelli, Copernicus, Galileo, Martin Luther and Shakespeare on to their poster.
3. Students then hang their poster on the wall and do a gallery walk
4. Open up for discussion if there were any that people put into the wrong groups or labels.
5. Assign students an individual reflection piece as to why they grouped them the way they did.
Adaptations
Benefits of this strategy (List, Group, Label, n.d.)
- improves student vocabulary and background knowledge
- improves brainstorming
- improves students categorization and organization of information
- students connect relationships between concepts
- students analyze and use prior knowledge to group terms
Lessons using List-Group-Label
1. Put students into small groups and give each a poster board.
2. Provide students with a list of works/achievements made during the Renaissance.
3. Using their notes and their books, they are to group and label the pieces together under the label of who made them. Categories could be: Leornardo Da Vinci, Michelangelo, Machiavelli, Copernicus, Galileo, Martin Luther and Shakespeare on to their poster.
3. Students then hang their poster on the wall and do a gallery walk
4. Open up for discussion if there were any that people put into the wrong groups or labels.
5. Assign students an individual reflection piece as to why they grouped them the way they did.
Adaptations
- While preparing for a final which consists of multiple units, have students assemble groups over terms from the subject they are in. Like concepts of Ancient Rome, Greece and India.
- Extend the activity to mapping out the groups in a concept web
- Use it for classification of species in science
- Extend the activity like the graphic organizer to the right. There they have added: Read, Map and Write to ensure comprehension of the material (List, Group, Label, Write, n.d.).
List Group Label Strategy
In this video, the teacher effectively explains what the List Group Label Strategy is, why it is beneficial, and how and when to use it in your classroom. In his use of the strategy, he has learners come up with the words, instead of giving words. This shows how teachers can adapt it to their own style. In the activity he shows, he describes how there is no right or wrong answers, as long as a student can justify why it goes in a certain subcategory. This can be true in some cases, however, if you follow my sample lesson from above this is not true. If you were to say the Vitruvian Man was made by William Shakespeare, that in fact would be incorrect. |
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List, Group, Label Strategy (JHAT, Jr)
In this video, the teacher explains the purpose of the strategy and goes on to express how student answers are predictable in their first experience the with this strategy. However, with experience students learn to think creatively about the subject matter and see new ways to group and classify things. The students work on this by grouping amendments in creative ways. The teacher also makes specifications about the grouping to help students be successful in the task. She sets a minimum of four groups with a minimum of 3 items in each group. |
References
Caparas, D. E. (2012, August 13). LIST GROUP LABEL STRATEGY. YouTube. Retrieved July 24, 2014, from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jRONTvsiRKM
JSDProfDev. (2013, February 6). List, Group, Label Strategy (JHAT, Jr.). YouTube. Retrieved July 24, 2014, from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RrR29GlORLE
List-Group-Label. (n.d.). Reading Rockets. Retrieved July 24, 2014, from http://www.readingrockets.org/strategies/list_group_label
List, Group, Label, Write Vocabulary Strategy. (n.d.). lessons4teachers -. Retrieved July 24, 2014, from https://lessons4teachers.wikispaces.com/List,+Group,+Label,+Write+Vocabulary+Strategy