List-Group-Label (Taba, 1967) is a good strategy for students who have some knowledge of a topic.
Use the following steps:

• Choose a cue word for the topic and give students 3 minutes to write as many words as they can think of that are associated with the term. List the associations on a board or overhead transparency.
• When you have a list of words, have students work cooperatively to group words by common characteristics. Provide teams with small pieces of paper so that they can move the terms around until the words fall into groups.
• Categorize the groups of words and label each group with a title. Each group of students should share their categories and explain why they chose to organize the words as they did.