The strategy enhances communication skills, comprehension, and critical thinking. It lets students have fun using dictionaries and content materials so students want to open books, research and locate information. People Say promotes listening skills and offers guided practice in learning to follow directions. It is designed to teach responsibility and to let students help each other to trigger recall and enhance processing. Specific rules guide students as they practice constructive interaction and problem solving.
Participants repeatedly hear lesson objectives and content to ensure comprehension.
It is designed to help students reason methodically, make sense of information, and prepare for testing. The strategy may be used with any written material, math, charts, graphs, or any information that is difficult to understand. It engages students in math concepts, teaches them to follow directions, stresses reasoning and the acceptance of consequences, and encourages students to communicate and make rational decisions together as a unit. Reasoning skills improve, recall increases, and strict guidelines help to improve behavior. Stump the Teacher enhances comprehension and lets students practice listening and communication techniques.