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Classroom Activities

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Elevator

Elevator is a presentational speaking activity that engages students in short bursts of meaningful communication in partners…

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Guess Who (Modified)

The purpose of this activity is for students to independently ask questions to find out the identity or name of the person,…

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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…

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Magnetic Summary

The purpose of this strategy is to help students with the difficult task of condensing and organizing information. This…

Silent Debate

This discussion strategy uses writing and silence as tools to help students explore a topic in depth. In a silent debate…

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Slap Jack

The purpose of the activity is to have each individual student demonstrate understanding while interpreting words or sentences…

Sorting into Categories

In this activity, students categorize the words/language chunks to be sorted according to a feature that is common to all the…

Story Sequencing

The purpose of this activity is for students to demonstrate understanding of a text or other authentic resource by sequencing…

Pagination

    • Current page 1
    • Page 2
    • Next page Next
    • Last page Last

Mode of Communication

  • Interpersonal (3)
  • Interpretive (5)
  • Presentational (2)

Performance Range

  • (-) Novice (9)
  • Intermediate (13)
  • Advanced (5)

Grade Level

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

Classroom Setting

  • Face-to-Face (8)
  • Online (7)

GRR Stage

  • (-) I do (4)
  • We do (4)
  • (-) You do alone (1)
  • (-) You do together (4)

Classroom grouping

  • Individual (6)
  • (-) Pairs (9)
  • Small group (3)
  • Whole class (2)

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