COMPARATIVE TABLE

YOWZA STRATEGIES MATRIX

Skills build and connect to form strategies that can be applied across any content areas.

PROJECT Project a reasonable possible next or future step based on the text based evidence.

PRIORITIZE Prioritize information based on relevance and importance.

RECOGNIZE RELEVANCE Recognize relevant text based evidence related to a question.

GENERATE POSSIBILITIES Generate or identify a series of possible outcomes.

PREDICTION

COMPARE Find similarities between the scene and one's lived experiences.

CONTRAST Identifies differences between the scene and one's lived experiences.

ACCESS PRIOR KNOWLEDGE Connecting prior experiences, observation, or learning to the scene.

RECOGNIZE RELEVANCE Recognize relevant text based evidence related to a question.

MAKING CONNECTIONS

DRAW CONCLUSIONS Presents a reasonable conclusion based on the data collected and compared/contrasted.

SEARCH & GATHER EVIDENCE Identifies relevant text-based content that serves as evidence of support for a conjecture.

ACCESS PRIOR KNOWLEDGE Connecting prior experiences, observation, or learning to the scene.

COMPARE & CONTRAST Compares and contrasts text-based evidence with each of the possible outcomes.

CONSIDER ALTERNATIVES Identifies various possible perspectives, outcomes, or options.

INFERENCES

Note to Yowza Team: The 4 quadrants for each stage of development are similar in a few cases which is awesome evidence of the overlap of skills across strategies and how skills can be developed across strategies. :)

high

relevance

Prediction is: * directly connected to the content * highly relevant

Prediction is: * not directly related to any part of the content * highly relevant

Prediction is: * not related * not relevant

Prediction is: * directly related to the content * not relevant

low

direct evidence

not related

text - based

high

Prediction is: * not possible * many outcomes selected

Prediction is: *possible * many outcomes selected

number of outcomes

Prediction is: * not possible * no outcomes selected * all outcomes selected

Prediction is: * possible * 1 outcome selected

low

possible

high

low

high

Prediction is: * very important to the overall story * highly relevant in the scene

Prediction is: * not important to the overall story * highly relevant to the scene

relevance to the scene

Prediction is: * not important in the overall story * not relevant in the scene

Prediction is: * very important to the overall story * not relevant in the scene

low

high

low

importance in the story

high

Prediction is: * future oriented * highly reasonable

Prediction is: * past (event already happened) * highly reasonable

reasonableness

Prediction is: * future oriented * not reasonable

Prediction is: * past (event already happened) * not reasonable

low

future

past

timeframe

high

relevance

Connection is: * not directly related to any part of the content * highly relevant

Connection is: * directly connected to the content * highly relevant

Connection is: * directly related to the content * not relevant

Connection is: * not related * not relevant

low

direct evidence

not related

text - based

high

relevance

Connection reflects: * extensive background knowledge or schema * high relevance

Connection reflects: * little background knowledge or schema * high relevance

Connection reflects: * little background knowledge or schema * not relevant

Connection reflects: * extensive background knowledge or schema * not relevant

low

extensive

none

prior knowledge

Connection: *extensive similarity; extensive related prior experiences * related to world outside their lived experiences

Connection: *no similarity; no prior experiences; unrelated * related to world outside their lived experiences

world

context of connection

Connection: *no similarity; no prior experiences; unrelated * related to self or lived personal experiences

Connection: *extensive similarity; extensive related prior experiences * related to self or lived personal experiences

self

extensive similarity

no similarity

depth of similarity

Connection: *strong contrast; deeply related prior experiences * related to world outside their lived experiences

world

Connection: *no contrast; similar; no connection * related to world outside their lived experiences

context of connection

Connection: *strong contrast; deeply related prior experiences * related to self or lived personal experiences

Connection: *no contrast; similar; no connection * related to self or lived personal experiences

self

no contrast

strong contrast

depth of contrast

high

Inference: *direct evidence from the text * highly relevant

Inference: *not related to the text * highly relevant

relevance

Inference: *not related to the text * not relevant

Inference: *direct evidence from the text * not relevant

low

not related

direct evidence

text - based

high

relevance

Inference reflects: * extensive background knowledge or schema * high relevance

Inference reflects: * little background knowledge or schema * high relevance

Inference reflects: * little background knowledge or schema * not relevant

Inference reflects: * extensive background knowledge or schema * not relevant

low

extensive

none

prior knowledge

high

Inference reflects: *narrow range of alternatives * most are highly reasonable

Inference reflects: * broad range of alternatives * most are highly reasonable

reasonable

Inference reflects: * broad range of alternatives * most are not reasonable

Inference reflects: *narrow range of alternatives * most are not reasonable

low

broad

narrow

range of alternatives

Inference: *compares AND contrasts each possible outcome * most outcomes are highly reasonable

high

Inference: *compares OR contrasts * most outcomes are highly reasonable

reaasonableness of outcomes

Inference: *compares AND contrasts each possible outcome *most outcomes unlikely to be reasonable

Inference: *compares OR contrasts * most outcomes unlikely to be reasonable

low

comparing AND contrasting

comparing OR contrasting

comparing/contrasting

Inference: *only text-based evidence OR related to background knowledge * highly reasonable conclusion

Inference: *based on text-based evidence AND related to background knowledge * highly reasonable conclusion

high

reaasonableness of conclusion

Inference: *based on text-based evidence AND related to background knowledge * not a reasonable conclusion

Inference: *only text-based evidence OR related to background knowledge * not a reasonable conclusion

most outcomes are highly reasonable

low

text-based evidence AND background knowledge

text-based evidence OR background knowledge

quality of selection