Flip
What is FLIP?
FLIP is a pre-reading strategy that gauges student interest and performance in a new text. On a 1-10 rating scale, students rate the text in four main areas. It is mainly used as the middle or high school level, but can be adapted to the lower grades.
What does FLIP stand for?
Friendliness - Students find helpful aspects of the text, such as highlighted or bolded terms, headings, table of contents, or indices that help explain the text.
Language - Students read three random paragraphs to determine if new vocabulary or long sentences are difficult to understand.
Interest - Students read the headings, beginning, and ending of a passage and look at visuals to assess interest.
Prior Knowledge - Students determine their level of familiarity with the topic and rate their prior knowledge accordingly.
Why use FLIP?
FLIP is a great resource for teachers when determining a textbook, novel, or non-fiction text because it incorporates student interest and opinion into classroom decisions. Additionally, by taking into account the student's opinion of their prior knowledge, FLIP provides me with a barometer for the amount of work necessary to develop and address the prior knowledge of the class. I also like this strategy because it involves the students delving into the text, rather than making superficial judgements of its content and their interest based upon the cover.
Here are some examples of FLIP:
FLIP is a pre-reading strategy that gauges student interest and performance in a new text. On a 1-10 rating scale, students rate the text in four main areas. It is mainly used as the middle or high school level, but can be adapted to the lower grades.
What does FLIP stand for?
Friendliness - Students find helpful aspects of the text, such as highlighted or bolded terms, headings, table of contents, or indices that help explain the text.
Language - Students read three random paragraphs to determine if new vocabulary or long sentences are difficult to understand.
Interest - Students read the headings, beginning, and ending of a passage and look at visuals to assess interest.
Prior Knowledge - Students determine their level of familiarity with the topic and rate their prior knowledge accordingly.
Why use FLIP?
FLIP is a great resource for teachers when determining a textbook, novel, or non-fiction text because it incorporates student interest and opinion into classroom decisions. Additionally, by taking into account the student's opinion of their prior knowledge, FLIP provides me with a barometer for the amount of work necessary to develop and address the prior knowledge of the class. I also like this strategy because it involves the students delving into the text, rather than making superficial judgements of its content and their interest based upon the cover.
Here are some examples of FLIP:
Based upon information from Alyssa Whalen and Jennifer Altieri