Anticipation Guides are used to activate curiosity and prior knowledge about a topic. Before reading a fiction or non-fiction…

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

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

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

The purpose of this activity is to provide a level of “desirable difficulty” by adding a memory component to an interpretive…

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

A story map is graphic representation of the structure of a story. The graphic makes clear the language elements of the story…

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