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Classroom Activities

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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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Draw, Write, and Talk

The purpose of this strategy is to support students in producing language in the presentational mode (writing or speaking) by…

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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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Find Your Match

The purpose of this activity is for students to practice asking questions based on key information in order to find and…

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…

Jigsaw: Base Groups/Expert Groups

The purpose of this activity is twofold: first, to comprehend and infer meaning from a text by becoming an expert on a portion…

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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…

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Mode of Communication

  • Interpersonal (10)
  • (-) Interpretive (9)
  • (-) Presentational (6)

Performance Range

  • Novice (13)
  • (-) Intermediate (13)
  • (-) Advanced (4)

Grade Level

  • 3-5 (6)
  • (-) 6-8 (13)
  • 9-12 (13)
  • K-2 (3)
  • (-) Undergraduate (11)

Classroom Setting

  • Face-to-Face (11)
  • Online (10)

GRR Stage

  • I do (4)
  • We do (1)
  • You do alone (3)
  • You do together (6)

Classroom grouping

  • Individual (7)
  • Pairs (10)
  • Small group (3)
  • Whole class (1)

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