by Vicky Kim | Oct 1, 2020
KNWS This activity helps to guide students through the process of solving a mathematical word problem. Students fill out a chart with the following columns as they complete a word problem:K: What do you know?,N: What is not relevant?,W: What do you want to find...
by Vicky Kim | Oct 1, 2020
Jot Thoughts In this activity students will jot down responses to a teacher prompt in a specified period of time. The purpose of this activity is to brainstorm ideas, share prior knowledge, or review content. This activity can work across content areas and grade...
by Vicky Kim | Oct 1, 2020
Guided Imagery Guided imagery helps students to activate background knowledge, and to preview a text in preparation for reading. Students use words and images from the text to generate multisensory visualizations of text content, and in doing so they become prepared...
by Vicky Kim | Oct 1, 2020
Exemplar Jigsaw This activity immerses students within a particular format, genre, or style of work, and guides them towards recognizing its characteristics, features, and purpose. Using a jigsaw format, students analyze exemplars in pairs, then “teach” their exemplar...
by reDesign | Oct 1, 2020
Costa’s Questioning This activity helps students to generate and classify questions at three levels: Gathering Information, Processing Information, Applying Information. This framework helps to expand and structure students’ questioning processes so that they...
