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Classroom Activities

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Charades - Modified

The purpose of this activity is to check for learning and build recall of key or target vocabulary for a lesson. In this…

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Elevator

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

Flyswatter Enhanced

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

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…

Guided Reading with Highlighter

The purpose of this activity is for students to identify the main idea and other key information in a text. The text may not…

Silent Debate

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

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 (2)
  • (-) Interpretive (6)
  • (-) Presentational (1)

Performance Range

  • (-) Novice (9)
  • Intermediate (14)
  • Advanced (5)

Grade Level

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

Classroom Setting

  • Face-to-Face (6)
  • Online (5)

GRR Stage

  • I do (4)
  • We do (2)
  • You do alone (1)
  • You do together (2)

Classroom grouping

  • Individual (4)
  • Pairs (7)
  • Small group (1)
  • Whole class (2)

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