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Classroom Activities

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Carousel Brainstorm

This activity gives students the chance to share their ideas about a topic or theme before the teacher begins a unit of study…

Find Someone Who…

This activity allows students to ask and answer questions with many different partners (ideally most if not all other students…

Give One, Get One, Move On

This is a low-prep, kinesthetic brainstorming activity that allows students to move around the room to ask and answer…

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Information Gap

The purpose of this activity is for learners to interact using sentences to find out missing information. Information gap…

Nested Conversations

This activity is intended for teachers to use after introducing a text, document, or presentation. The purpose of the activity…

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Prediction Cards

Prediction is a process students go through before listening to or reading a text. The purpose of this activity is to give…

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Stand If…

The purpose of this activity is for students to demonstrate their understanding of key vocabulary illustrated with images by…

Tea Party

This strategy allows students to analyze and discuss portions of a text before they read the text in its entirety. Students…

Mode of Communication

  • (-) Interpersonal (7)
  • Interpretive (8)
  • (-) Presentational (1)

Performance Range

  • Novice (4)
  • Intermediate (2)
  • Advanced (1)

Grade Level

  • 3-5 (6)
  • 6-8 (8)
  • 9-12 (9)
  • K-2 (4)
  • (-) Undergraduate (8)

Classroom Setting

  • Face-to-Face (7)
  • Online (7)

GRR Stage

  • (-) We do (8)
  • You do alone (4)
  • You do together (20)

Classroom grouping

  • Individual (2)
  • (-) Pairs (2)
  • (-) Small group (2)
  • (-) Whole class (5)

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