Provide students with a graphic tool to record and organize information about characters in a text.
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Character Maps
Help students engage with a fictional or historical character by creating an annotated illustration.
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Chunking
Help students approach challenging texts by breaking down content into manageable pieces.
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Introducing a New Book
Spark students’ interest in a book before reading it by having them make predictions and ask questions about its contents.
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Life Road Maps
Enrich students’ understanding of a historical or literary figure by having students draw the figure’s life journey.
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Lifted Line Poem
Provide a creative way for students to engage with a text by transforming a line they find meaningful into a poem.
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Read Aloud
Encourage class participation and develop students’ active listening skills by reading aloud text excerpts.
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Reader's Theater
Students create a performance that conveys a text’s message, theme, or conflict.
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Shadow Reading
Use this strategy to help students consider, compare, and analyze various perspectives on a complex topic.
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Storyboard
Help students track a story’s main ideas and supporting details by having them illustrate important scenes.
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Text-to-Text, Text-to-Self, Text-to-World
Use this strategy to improve students’ reading skills and help them connect ideas in a text to their own lives, current events, and history.
Lesson
Holocaust
A World in Transition: Emancipation, Acculturation, and Antisemitism
Students examine the pressures on European Jews as they moved away from the shtetls to larger urban centers at end of the nineteenth century.