Cognitive strategies are one type of learning strategy that learners use in order to learn more successfully. These include repetition, organizing new language, summarizing meaning, guessing meaning from context, using imagery for memorization. Cognitive learning helps students learn effectively and ensures that the concepts learned in class are understood, not just memorized.
- Students reflect on their experience
- They find new solutions to problems
- It fosters discussions about what is taught
- They explore and understand how ideas are connected
- They justify and explain their thinking
- Visualizations improve their understanding and recall
Topic
Synonym and Antonym
Strategy
Pair up the children, Ask them to jot down characteristics of the characters from the story and then give opposite words for the same. Students will define in their own words (paraphrase) the meaning of synonyms and antonyms with examples.
Topic
Prepositions
Strategy
Students will be asked to close their eyes and imagine their room. They will speak one sentence describing the position of anything in the room using prepositions. e.g. My toys are kept on the table. My books are in the cupboard.
Hide and Seek game can also be planned for the same.
Freeze into a Statue Game: Students will be moving around in the room and shall freeze on listening to the word ‘statue’. They will describe their position with prepositions. e.g. I am beside the table. I am behind the door.
Variation- They can talk about each other’s positions too.