1. I believe advance organizers are crucial to classroom learning due to the way they allow information to connect to what the student may already know. For example, if the student is studying motion and energy, they may have good understanding of what motion and speed is, but they may lack understanding of acceleration, velocity, average speed, force, etc. Using an advance organizer can connect the subjects of what the student already knows, and show them how the unknown terms and concepts are related to their current knowledge. This connection helps them not only learn the meaning of the terms more easily, it also helps them understand how they are all connected.
2. Cues and questions are obviously an essential aspect to any classroom, however, focusing on question delivery, type, and level helps them remain beneficial for the students. I have found in my experience that the questions you choose to to ask your students can make or break a lesson. Also, as mentioned in the text, I have found that questions are also crucial to the teachers understanding of the students prior knowledge. Asking the right questions can make up for hours of otherwise useless lessons by establishing what is too advanced and too easy for the classroom.
3. Cues and Questions
   1. Research and Theory
      1. 1. Focus should remain on what is important rather than what is unusual.
      2. 2. "Higher level" questions produce deeper learning than "lower level" questions.
      3. 3. Waiting before accepting responses increases depth of student answers.
      4. 4. Questions are effective even when asked before a learning experience.
   2. Classroom Practice
      1. Questions on things/people, actions, events, and states of being help students fill in missing information.
      2. Questions can also be designed to analyze errors, construct support, and analyze perspectives.
4. Advance Organizers
   1. Classroom Practice
      1. Expository Advance Organizers help describe the new content.
      2. Narrative Advance Organizers present information in a story format.
      3. Skimming information before reading is another form of advanced organizing.
      4. Graphic Advance Organizers use visual representation to enhance understanding.
   2. Research and Theory
      1. 1. Focus on what is important rather than what is unusual.
      2. 2. "Higher level" advance organizers produce deeper learning than the "lower level" advance organizers.
      3. 3. Most useful with information that is not well organized.
      4. 4. Different types yield different results.