by reDesign | Oct 3, 2020
Role-Play In a role-play, students adopt a fictional persona and they act out a simulated situation. When studying literature, students usually role-play by acting as a character in a story, but role-play is a flexible learning tool that can also be adapted for many...
by reDesign | Oct 1, 2020
The Action-Feelings-Setting Strategy Action Feelings Setting is a strategy for planning and executing writing that helps students to focus on critical elements of a story and to include important and engaging elements. It can be used to plan new writing and also to...
by reDesign | Oct 1, 2020
Text Feature Grid This activity develops awareness of the many textual features that may be present in different types of texts, and helps students to draw meaning from these text features. When students are aware of the presence and role of a variety of text...
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
Tap and Count This activity helps students to organize the process of planning and writing a composition. It focuses students on remembering their purpose in writing, the audience they are targeting, and that their composition should include a beginning, middle, and...
