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Teaching Strategy

Encourage students to stop and engage with a text as they read with this comprehension strategy.

Teaching Strategy

Deepen students' understanding of a topic by having them connect to their prior knowledge.

Teaching Strategy

Deepen students' understanding of a topic by having them connect to their prior knowledge.

Teaching Strategy

Model for students how proficient readers make meaning of a text by verbalizing your thinking as you read.

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Teaching Strategy

Ask students to visualize a passage of text and interpret it through drawing with this reading comprehension strategy.

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Teaching Strategy

This strategy uses reflection prompts to help students consider a complex or emotional topic through the lenses of head, heart, and ethics.

Teaching Strategy

This teaching strategy invites students to think about the “tools” they have access to that can help them take care of themselves and their community in the wake of traumatic news.

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This strategy helps students engage with oral histories in order to deepen their understanding of how past events impacted individuals and communities, and to gain new perspectives on the present.

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Teaching Strategy

Use K-W-L charts to help students assess what they already know about a topic and what they want to learn.

K-W-L Chart template that can be printed out and used in the classroom.

Stratégie Pédagogique

Aidez les élèves à évaluer ce qu’ils savent déjà sur un sujet et ce qu’ils veulent apprendre.

Teaching Strategy

Educators will Introduce students to the concept of inferencing and then help them develop their inferencing skills.

A student reads a handout in the classroom.

Teaching Strategy

Transform reading into an active, engaging process that develops critical thinking, emotional engagement, and moral reflection through annotation.

Teaching Strategy

Reading stations boost comprehension with tailored small-group activities that cater to different reading needs and preferences.

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Stratégie Pédagogique

Utilisez la stratégie 3-2-1 pour évaluer la compréhension et l'intérêt des élèves pour un sujet.

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Stratégie Pédagogique

Accompagner les élèves dans une analyse critique d'une image qui renforce leurs capacités d'observation, d'interprétation et de réflexion critique.

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Stratégie Pédagogique

Les élèves clarifient certains aspects de leur identité ou de l'identité d'un personnage historique ou littéraire en écrivant des poèmes qui se concentrent sur des éléments plus profonds de l'identité personnelle.

Stratégie Pédagogique

Utiliser des comparaisons texte à texte, texte à soi et texte au monde pour aider les élèves à relier les idées d'un texte à leur propre vie, à l'actualité et à l'histoire.

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Stratégie Pédagogique

Ces points sont essentiels pour créer un espace d'apprentissage courageux, bienveillant et sécurisé.

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Stratégie Pédagogique

Utilisez un organisateur graphique pour aider les élèves à analyser un document historique et à déterminer son point de vue ou son parti pris.

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Stratégie Pédagogique

Cette stratégie de discussion aide les élèves à pratiquer à la fois le rôle d'orateur actif et d'auditeur actif lors d'une conversation de groupe

Four students sitting at a table with one student talking and gesturing.

Stratégie Pédagogique

der les élèves à exprimer leurs pensées et leurs émotions sur un sujet en les engageant dans une conversation écrite avec leurs camarades de classe.

Students adding post-it notes to a white board.

Stratégie Pédagogique

Encouragez la participation des élèves et développez leur capacité d'écoute active en lisant à haute voix des extraits de textes.

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Stratégie Pédagogique

Les éducateurs aideront les élèves à renforcer leurs compétences en lecture et en écriture en augmentant la complexité des questions auxquelles ils doivent répondre à propos d'un texte.

Stratégie Pédagogique

Les élèves deviendront des "experts" sur un sujet et partageront ensuite leurs nouvelles connaissances avec leurs camarades de classe.

Four students sitting at a table smiling and talking to each other

Stratégie Pédagogique

Impliquez tous les élèves en leur demandant de montrer leur position par rapport à une affirmation en se déplaçant dans la salle.

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Stratégie Pédagogique

Une activité de promenade dans une galerie fait bouger les élèves en explorant une série de documents, d'images ou de travaux d'élèves exposés dans la salle de classe.

Stratégie Pédagogique

Un mur de mots aide les élèves à repérer le vocabulaire nouveau ou important en affichant ces mots dans un espace commun de la salle de classe.

Three students sitting in a classroom with one of the students talking.

Teaching Strategy

Students compose poems using only words, phrases, or quotations from a text that they find meaningful.

Teaching Strategy

Get all students involved by asking them to show their stance on a statement through their positioning around the room.

Teaching Strategy

A gallery walk activity gets students moving as they explore a range of documents, images, or student work displayed around the classroom.

Students examine posters hanging around classroom.

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Encourage students to recognize the multiple causal factors behind an event from history, the present, or literature, using the visual of an iceberg.

Teaching Strategy

Students practice perspective-taking by representing the point of view of an assigned personality in a small-group discussion.

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Teaching Strategy

Students practice perspective-taking by representing the point of view of an assigned personality in a small-group discussion.

Teaching Strategy

Make your students’ group work more effective by giving each member a specific role to fill.

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Get students thinking about the ideas and themes that they’ll encounter in a unit or a text.

Teaching Strategy

Structure an active class discussion in which students express their opinions by standing along a continuum.

Students discussing in pairs facing each other

Teaching Strategy

Structure an active class discussion in which students express their opinions by standing along a continuum.

Teaching Strategy

Students have a written conversation with peers and use silence as a tool to explore a topic in depth.

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Stratégie Pédagogique

Les élèves ont une conversation écrite avec leurs pairs et utilisent le silence comme outil pour explorer un sujet en profondeur.

Teaching Strategy

Students clarify aspects of their identity or the identity of a historical or literary figure by writing poems that focus on deeper elements of personal makeup like experiences, relationships, hopes, and interests.