by reDesign | Oct 3, 2020
First Lines First Lines is a pre-reading activity that promotes comprehension by helping students to anticipate a text based on its opening. It helps students to become more adept at framing a text efficiently, and to focus their attention on what they can learn from...
by reDesign | Oct 3, 2020
Inquiry Charts In this activity students will examine multiple sources of information for points of consistency and inconsistency. The purpose of this activity is to build critical reading skills. This activity can be modified to fit students with a variety of...
by reDesign | Oct 3, 2020
Photo Drop This activity, adapted from Facing History and Ourselves (www.facinghistory.org) helps students consider what they already know about a topic or a text through visual media. Students examine relevant photographs and identify what they see, make inferences,...
by reDesign | Oct 1, 2020
Poems Put to Use This is an activity, adapted from Poetry Out Loud (www.poetryoutloud.org), that helps students to imagine how memorizing lines of poetry can be useful in their lives. Through this process, students gain an appreciation for poetry and for its...
by reDesign | Oct 1, 2020
Anticipation Guide Anticipation guides consist of statements about themes from a text and ask students to evaluate their own thoughts about those themes. Anticipation guides help students build background when they think about ideas before they engage in a text. The...
