by reDesign | Oct 3, 2020
Draw-Label-Caption This activity, where students draw and label a key scene in a text, works well as a pre-writing activity, and also as a reading comprehension activity. It helps students to develop a detailed visualization of a setting, and to attach words to the...
by reDesign | Oct 3, 2020
This activity, adapted from Barton and Heidema’s Teaching Reading In Mathematics (2009), helps to lead students through the process of solving a mathematical word problem. Using a written guide, students focus on thinking about the problem at three levels: first...
by reDesign | Oct 3, 2020
QAR This activity helps students to structure the asking of different types of questions about a text. “QAR” stands for “Question-Answer Relationship,” and it is a way of conceptualizing the different types of questions students may ask about a text. CONTENT AREA ELA,...
by reDesign | Oct 3, 2020
This activity, adapted from Barton and Heidema’s Teaching Reading In Mathematics (2009), helps to lead students through the process of solving a mathematical word problem. Using a written guide, students focus on thinking about the problem at three levels: first...
by reDesign | Oct 3, 2020
Quote and Comment This activity helps students to generate connections, ideas, and reactions related to the key ideas of a text or a unit of study. Students go on a gallery walk, looking at and reading displays of key quotations or images drawn from the unit’s...
