Authentic Lessons for 21st Century Learning
This collaborative strategy can be used to introduce new material or to review texts that students have read. 30-Second Expert helps students summarize and synthesize information in a brief, reciprocal activity. Read more »
Created by: Shelby Blackwood
May 10th, 2022
This writing activity enables students to summarize their understanding of material, to evaluate understanding for gaps in knowledge, and to communicate this to their teacher. Read more »
Created by: K20 Center
May 10th, 2022
Students focus on the main ideas of a text through collaboration in this summarization strategy. Read more »
Created by: K20 Center
March 4th, 2022
The 5W Cube is a portable strategy to target open-ended questions (beginning with who, what, when, where, why, and how) as a means of exploring content and conversational speech. The 5W Cube helps students formulate questions and foster meaningful connections with content. This strategy can be used... Read more »
Created by: Lindsey Link
November 30th, 2021
This group brainstorming strategy is designed to promote thinking about a specific topic, concept, or text. Students activate prior knowledge and make connections to new learning via other resources. Read more »
Created by: Lindsay Hawkins
March 4th, 2022
This strategy promotes critical thinking when analyzing information sources for research purposes. A-CLAP gives students a framework for evaluating the credibility of a website, article, book, or other source. Read more »
Created by: Adam Yeargin
November 30th, 2021
This strategy engages students in organizing ideas into themes to summarize content or find points of agreement. Students respond to a prompt and work in groups to organize the responses into themes. Read more »
Created by: Mariah Warren
November 30th, 2021
Through discussion and physical movement, students practice persuasive communication and critically examine their own opinions. Read more »
Created by: K20 Center
November 30th, 2021
When an assignment calls for thoughtful and measured responses, this strategy enables students to reply in an orderly and democratic fashion. Students sometimes shy away from responding after hearing a classmate give a particularly good response to a question or prompt. By ordering responses beforehand,... Read more »
Created by: Daniel Schwarz
November 30th, 2021
Students evaluate statements based on how often they think they are true. This strategy is especially useful in revealing whether students overgeneralize or undergeneralize a given concept. Read more »
Created by: K20 Center
November 30th, 2021
In this strategy, student input is used to create an in-the-moment poster about a given topic. The Anchor Chart is then hung on the wall for later reference. Read more »
Created by: K20 Center
November 30th, 2021
Annotating Text is a strategy that engages students in close reading to build their vocabulary and reading comprehension. Students identify difficult or confusing passages in a text and then seek to explain them. Read more »
Created by: Susan McHale
November 30th, 2021