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

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

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

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

The Frayer Square is four-section graphic organizer tool that can be used to gain a deeper understanding of vocabulary and…

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

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

This activity allows the teacher to determine how well students understand key words or phrases in a text prior to working…