by reDesign | Oct 3, 2020
TREE for Persuasive Writing This activity helps students to organize the process of planning and writing a persuasive or opinion text. The mnemonic TREE (Harris & Graham, 1992) is an acronym that stands for: T: Topic sentence R: Reasons E: Examine reasons E:...
by reDesign | Oct 3, 2020
Guided Peer Questions This group questioning activity helps students to learn effectively from a teacher presentation or a text. When engaged in Guided Peer Questioning, students are able to process, clarify, and extend the content of a presentation through structured...
by reDesign | Oct 3, 2020
Guided Self-Questioning This individual questioning activity helps students to learn effectively from a teacher presentation or a text. When engaged in Guided Self-Questioning, students are able to process, clarify, and extend the content of a presentation through...
by reDesign | Oct 3, 2020
Word Scramble Prediction In this activity, adapted from Gallagher’s Deeper Reading (2004), the teacher provides students with a list of intriguing words from a text they will read. The students then read the words and write a prediction based on those words. The...
by reDesign | Oct 3, 2020
Word Problem Roulette This activity, adapted from Barton and Heidema’s Teaching Reading In Mathematics (2009), helps students to develop their ability to solve math word problems by collaborating on problems as a group, and then communicating as a group the steps and...
