by reDesign | Oct 1, 2020
Adjusting Reading Rate This activity teaches students to monitor the relative difficulty of text, and to adjust their reading rate to support comprehension of text at various levels of difficulty. The activity allows students to practice metacognition and...
by reDesign | Oct 1, 2020
Spider Maps This activity helps students to become familiar with key concepts or events from a text or a unit of study, and to categorize these concepts or events as either main ideas or supporting details. CONTENT AREA ELA, Math, Science, Social Studies LEARNING...
by Vicky Kim | Oct 1, 2020
KWL/KWHLAQ K-W-L charts are graphic organizers that help students organize information before, during, and after a unit or a lesson. They can be used to engage students in a new topic, activate prior knowledge, share unit objectives, and monitor learning. KWHLAQ...
by Vicky Kim | Oct 1, 2020
Scene it In this activity students will visualize and draw events from a text. The purpose of this activity is to help students remember what they read. This activity is best completed at the end of a reading or after a revealing moment in the text that was built up...
by Vicky Kim | Oct 1, 2020
Jigsaw In this activity students are divided into groups. Each group has a different focus related to a common theme or topic. Students are then regrouped so that one member from each of the original groups is able to teach the other students what they learned. The...
