by reDesign | Oct 3, 2020
Inner Voice Calender This quick activity, adapted from Cris Tovani’s Do I Really Have to Teach Reading? (2004), allows students to reflect on their learning by engaging in active dialogue with their peers and/or teachers. Students respond to a focus question of the...
by reDesign | Oct 3, 2020
I Wonder Poem This activity encourages students to develop their curiosity about a topic by asking authentic questions in the form of a poem. Using the poem “I Wonder” by Jeannie Kirby as a model, students express their own questions through the structure of a poem....
by reDesign | Oct 3, 2020
TREE for Persuasive Writing This activity helps students to organize the process of planning and writing a persuasive or opinion text. The mnemonic TREE (Harris & Graham, 1992) is an acronym that stands for: T: Topic sentence R: Reasons E: Examine reasons E:...
by reDesign | Oct 3, 2020
Word Scramble Prediction In this activity, adapted from Gallagher’s Deeper Reading (2004), the teacher provides students with a list of intriguing words from a text they will read. The students then read the words and write a prediction based on those words. The...
by reDesign | Oct 3, 2020
Word Trees Word trees are a visual representation of a set of words, with a branching structure demonstrating the words’ interrelationships. Words that are more frequently or strongly associated to a given word are displayed with thicker or larger font, so that word...
