Use this debate-style activity to strengthen students’ ability to use evidence and examples to defend their positions.
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.
Use this creative character-analysis activity to help students develop understanding of and empathy for a literary or historical figure.
Help students track a story’s main ideas and supporting details by having them illustrate important scenes.
Use this strategy to improve students’ reading skills and help them connect ideas in a text to their own lives, current events, and history.
Facilitate thoughtful group discussions by having students first share their ideas in writing and with a partner.
Students mimic a town hall meeting as they share their perspectives on a topic.
Use this teaching strategy to help students learn how to take notes by identifying "key ideas" in one column and their "responses" in another column.