Mini Summaries

Mini Summaries

Mini Summaries This activity supports students in comprehending lectures or presentations by asking them to write a summary of a section of the presentation every three to five minutes. Writing these regular mini-summaries helps students to sustain attention, to...
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Spider Maps

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...
Mini Summaries

Mind Mapping

Mind Mapping Mind mapping is a structured activity through which students identify and solidify associations among words and concepts, and work to organize their associations into structures. By connecting and structuring their related knowledge, students develop a...
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Sentence Combining

Sentence Combining This writing activity helps students to understand sentence structure by simplifying and combining sentences drawn from literature. Students develop an appreciation of the craft of sentence writing, as well as a deep understanding of sentence...
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Memory Bubbles

Memory Bubbles Memory bubbles are a type of concept mapping, in which students record and organize the people, problems, solutions, and resulting changes associated with key ideas in a reading. Students generally create between one and five memory bubbles for a given...