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Classroom Activities

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Agreement Circles

Agreement Circles is a kinesthetic process that engages students in debating ideas concerning the topic of study, allowing…

Beginning, Middle, End

In this activity, students carefully examine an image or a piece of artwork that is culturally authentic and has an emotional…

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Choose a Side

In this on-demand presentational speaking activity, students are given a prompt and asked to take a side. Prompts might be two…

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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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Fold the Line

The purpose of this activity is for students to interact and exchange opinions or ideas with one or more classmates whose…

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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…

Silent Debate

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

Using Graphic Organizers

Graphic organizers are visual displays of information that help learners to process and organize input from an interaction or…

Mode of Communication

  • (-) Interpersonal (5)
  • (-) Interpretive (1)
  • (-) Presentational (3)

Performance Range

  • Novice (19)
  • Intermediate (20)
  • (-) Advanced (8)

Grade Level

  • (-) 3-5 (2)
  • 6-8 (8)
  • 9-12 (8)
  • K-2 (1)
  • (-) Undergraduate (8)

Classroom Setting

  • Face-to-Face (7)
  • Online (6)

GRR Stage

  • I do (1)
  • We do (1)
  • You do alone (3)
  • You do together (5)

Classroom grouping

  • Individual (3)
  • Pairs (6)
  • Small group (1)
  • Whole class (1)

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