1. Using Foldables to Enhance Student Achievement
Fantastic Foldables
Using
Foldables
to Enhance
Student
Achievement
Presented by Lora Drum

2. What are foldables?
3 dimensional interactive graphic organizers that students create
Can be used as a self-check study guide
Can be used at any level and with any subject area
Learning/Assessment tools
Serve as mental models

3. Why use foldables? Fun & motivating, hands-on approach Study guides
Note taking to help organize information
Improve student note-taking skills
Reach all learners
Students retain information
Replace the use of worksheets/reduce copy counts
Projects
Integration of subject areas
Alternative assessments
Hold students accountable

4. When do we use foldables?
Introducing new vocabulary words
Introducing a new skill, topic, or concept
Before a chapter, lesson, story, etc.
During the lesson
After completing the chapter, lesson, story, etc.
Guided Instruction or Guided Reading
Writing process
Review
Anytime- daily

5. 70%
of input to the human brain is visual

6. And the research says… Graphic organizers (such as foldables) can:
- help students focus on text structure as
they read
- provide tools used to visually represent
relationships in text
- help students write well-organized
summaries of text
- retain information (mental models)
- keep students actively engaged in the instructional process and learning as they create foldables

7. How should we use foldables?
Teacher directed- modeling
Guided Practice
Independent Practice- students create own folds/projects
Alternative Assessment Tools

8. Assessment Tools tests based on information writing samples journals
rubrics
tests based on information
writing samples
journals
oral questioning

9. Basic Folds & Terminology
Hamburger
Hotdog
Taco
Burrito
Valley
Mountain
Shutter
Accordion
Layered Book

10. Hamburger
Fold a rectangular piece of paper in half along the short side

11. Hamburger Fold
Options

12. Two Door Books

14. Three Door
Books

15. Matchbooks

16. Hot Dog
Fold a rectangular piece of paper in half along the long side

17. Hot Dog Fold Options

18. Tri-fold Books

19. Tables and Charts

20. Taco
Fold the corner of a sheet of paper over to create a triangle. Trim any excess.

21. Envelope Folds

22. Burrito
A burrito fold rolls the page up (similar to hotdog fold) but without creating a crease in the paper.
* Used in making a bound book

23. Shutter
Begin as if you were going to make a hamburger but instead of the creasing the paper, pinch it to show the midpoint.
Fold the outer edges of the paper to meet at the pinch, or mid-point, forming a shutter fold.

24. Basic Shutter Fold

25. Shutter Fold Options

26. Accordion
Fold each sheet of paper into hamburgers. However, fold one side one half inch shorter than the other side. This will form a tab that is one half inch long.
Fold the tab the opposite way.
Glue together to form an accordion by gluing a straight edge of one section into the valley of another section.

27. Accordion Fold Options

28. Layered Books
Take any number of sheets, stack them on top of one another, staggering them so that they is space between each, hold tightly to the side and fold the top layer over the bottom and crease

29. Layered Look Books

30. Some other foldable options…

31. Hotdog fold- Vocabulary Book
Layered Book with
wrapping paper cover

32. Venn Diagrams

33. Pyramid Folds

35. Shape Folds

36. More shapes

38. Lapbooks
Great for
projects!
Lapbooks are made from using a file folder or large sheet of construction paper as the base. Begin by shutter folding the base. Multiple foldables can be incorporated into the the lapbook.

39. Caves
Lapbook
Ladybug
Lapbook

40. Dinosaur
Lapbook
Brazil
Lapbook

41. Check out Dinah Zike books… www.dinah.com/
check out foldables by Google searching and checking out boards on Pinterest

43. Secret to Success:
Model,
Model

44. Questions Comments:
Contact Information
Good Luck and Make a BIG Splash with FOLDABLES!