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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…

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…

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…

Hold Ups

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

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…

Listen and Draw

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

Museum Activity

This activity is an “art tour.” The purpose of the activity is for students to view and discuss famous works of art from the…

Picture Sequencing

The purpose of this activity is to present language in meaningful context with supporting visuals. This activity requires that…

Pagination

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Mode of Communication

  • Interpersonal (15)
  • (-) Interpretive (22)
  • Presentational (7)

Performance Range

  • Novice (5)
  • Intermediate (8)
  • Advanced (1)

Grade Level

  • 3-5 (15)
  • 6-8 (22)
  • (-) 9-12 (21)
  • (-) K-2 (7)
  • (-) Undergraduate (18)

Classroom Setting

  • Face-to-Face (18)
  • Online (17)

GRR Stage

  • (-) I do (15)
  • We do (7)
  • (-) You do alone (5)
  • (-) You do together (3)

Classroom grouping

  • Individual (8)
  • Pairs (7)
  • Small group (4)
  • Whole class (12)

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