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Classroom Activities

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Anticipation Guide

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

Chat Stations

Chat stations are low-prep, small-group discussions on different topics that allow students to practice asking and answering…

Find Someone Who…

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

Flyswatter Enhanced

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

Four Corners - Checking for Understanding

This activity is designed to allow students to demonstrate their understanding of a message by moving around the classroom in…

Four Corners - Conversations

This activity is designed to allow students to demonstrate their understanding of a message by moving around the classroom in…

Hold Ups

The purpose of this activity is to build recall of key or target vocabulary at sentence level, to build confidence in learners…

Inside/Outside Circles

This cooperative learning strategy actively engages students as they work with multiple partners to ask and answer questions…

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Mode of Communication

  • Interpersonal (7)
  • Interpretive (12)

Performance Range

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

Grade Level

  • (-) 3-5 (19)
  • 6-8 (33)
  • 9-12 (33)
  • K-2 (9)
  • Undergraduate (31)

Classroom Setting

  • (-) Face-to-Face (19)
  • Online (18)

GRR Stage

  • (-) I do (11)
  • (-) We do (4)
  • You do alone (2)
  • (-) You do together (6)

Classroom grouping

  • Individual (4)
  • Pairs (7)
  • Small group (3)
  • Whole class (14)

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