Help students identify and analyze the key characteristics of the three most common types of news articles.
Help students identify and analyze the key characteristics of the three most common types of news articles.
Introduce students to several perspectives on a topic by having them pick a quotation to explore with their classmates.
Help students unpack their responses to a text or video using this structured protocol that requires alternating between thinking and writing.
Encourage class participation and develop students’ active listening skills by reading aloud text excerpts.
Students create a performance that conveys a text’s message, theme, or conflict.
Use this quick way for students to demonstrate their engagement with a text, image, or video by having them identify what they find surprising, interesting, and troubling.
Use this debate-style activity to strengthen students’ ability to use evidence and examples to defend their positions.
This discussion strategy helps students practice being both active speakers and active listeners in a group conversation.
Guide students’ analysis of a photograph, artwork, or video with this simple critical-viewing strategy.
Use this strategy to help students consider, compare, and analyze various perspectives on a complex topic.
Have students facilitate a discussion in order to work together toward a shared understanding of a text.
Small groups of students move from station to station to read, watch, and interpret a variety of resources.