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
Second Chance The Second Chance activity, inspired by Burke’s The English Teacher’s Companion (1998), asks students to imagine alternate outcomes in a text. Students explore these alternate outcomes by examining cause-and-effect relationships and then manipulating...
by reDesign | Oct 3, 2020
Semantic Mapping “Semantics” refers to the concepts or ideas conveyed by words, and semantic mapping is a process through which students visually depict the ways ideas are connected. Semantic mapping can be used for a text or a unit of study. Through semantic mapping,...
