by reDesign | Oct 1, 2020
Poems Put to Use This is an activity, adapted from Poetry Out Loud (www.poetryoutloud.org), that helps students to imagine how memorizing lines of poetry can be useful in their lives. Through this process, students gain an appreciation for poetry and for its...
by reDesign | Oct 1, 2020
Tap and Count This activity helps students to organize the process of planning and writing a composition. It focuses students on remembering their purpose in writing, the audience they are targeting, and that their composition should include a beginning, middle, and...
by reDesign | Oct 1, 2020
Closed and Open Word Sorts Word Sort is a simple small group activity. Students list key words from a reading or a unit of study, or alternatively, the teacher may provide a list of terms prior to the sort. Students identify the meaning and properties of each word and...
by reDesign | Oct 1, 2020
Tableau In this activity students will create frozen scenes from significant events in their reading. The purpose of the activity is to identify important scenes from the reading and analyze character behavior. This activity works best with fiction, but can also work...
by reDesign | Oct 1, 2020
Summarizing Summarizing is an important skill for initial consolidation of information, and for later review. Through the act of summarizing, students process information and make meaning of it as they make decisions about main ideas versus details, and as they...
