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Life Road Maps
Educators will enrich students’ understanding of a historical or literary figure by having students draw the figure’s life journey.
Lifted Line Poem
Educators will provide a creative way for students to engage with a text by transforming a line they find meaningful into a poem.
Levels of Questions
Educators will help students strengthen their literacy skills by increasing the complexity of the questions they need to answer about a text.
Jigsaw: Developing Community and Disseminating Knowledge
Students will become “experts” on a topic and then share their new knowledge with peers.
Journals in the Classroom
Create a practice of student journaling to help your students critically examine their surroundings and make informed judgments.
S-I-T: Surprising, Interesting, Troubling
Use this quick way for students to demonstrate their engagement with a text, image, or video by having them identify what they find surprising, interesting, and troubling.
Save the Last Word for Me
This discussion strategy helps students practice being both active speakers and active listeners in a group conversation.
See, Think, Wonder
Guide students’ analysis of a photograph, artwork, or video with this simple critical-viewing strategy.
Concentric Circles
This kinesthetic discussion activity invites students to be active listeners and speakers and to interact with a wide range of classmates.
News Article Analysis
Help students identify and analyze the key characteristics of the three most common types of news articles.
Pick a Number
Introduce students to several perspectives on a topic by having them pick a quotation to explore with their classmates.