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,...
by reDesign | Oct 3, 2020
Storyboard Your Visualizations In this activity, students will create drawings that represent their five senses based on what they have read. The purpose of this activity is for readers to experience the text by using their senses to put them inside the text. This can...
by reDesign | Oct 3, 2020
Theme Triangle In this activity, adapted from Gallagher’s Deeper Reading (2004), students will explore theme through a variety of media. After students have finished a novel they will identify one of the themes of the novel. After they have identified the theme they...
by reDesign | Oct 3, 2020
Visual Timeline Visual timelines are similar to traditional timelines, but include images or drawings. They are one tool to help students with the sequencing of events. They can be an effective tool for analyzing a piece of text by identifying the arc of a story,...
