Review and Closure
Review summarizes previous work and forms a link between what had been learned and what is coming. Closure is a form of review that occurs at the end of a lesson. Review emphasizes important points and can occur at any point in a leaning activity. Although it most commonly occurs at the beginning and end of a lesson.
The value of review is well documented by research (Emmer et al.. 1979: Rosen shine and Stevens, 1986). Dempster(1991) goes further in saying that “…reviews may do more than simply increase the amount learned; they may shift the learner’s attention away from verbatim details of the material being studied to its deeper conceptual structure” (p. 71). This deeper conceptual structure is especially important when we teach for understanding.