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
July 27th, 2021
This short writing activity helps students summarize their understanding of material, evaluate that understanding for gaps in knowledge, and communicate this to their teacher. Read more »
Created by: K20 Center
September 10th, 2020
Students focus on the main ideas of a text through collaboration in this summarization strategy. Read more »
Created by: K20 Center
January 29th, 2021
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. The 5W Cube is a general strategy... Read more »
Created by: Lindsey Link
September 10th, 2020
A group brainstorming strategy designed to promote thinking for a topic, concept, text, etc. Students engage to activate prior knowledge and make connections to new learning via other resources. Read more »
Created by: Lindsay Hawkins
September 10th, 2020
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
March 24th, 2021
Affinity Process is a strategy that engages students in organizing ideas into themes to summarize content or find points of agreement. Students respond to a prompt, then work in groups to organize the responses into themes. Read more »
Created by: Mariah Warren
September 10th, 2020
Through the physical movement and discussion of this activity, students practice persuasive communication and critically examine their own opinions. Read more »
Created by: K20 Center
September 14th, 2020
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
September 10th, 2020
Students evaluate statements for how often they are true, which is especially useful in revealing whether they overgeneralize or under-generalize a given concept. Read more »
Created by: K20 Center
September 14th, 2020
Anchor charts are an in-the-moment poster made with student input and then hung on the wall for later reference. Read more »
Created by: K20 Center
September 10th, 2020
Annotating Text is a strategy that engages students in close reading to build their vocabulary and reading comprehension. Students identify difficult or confusing passages within a text and then seek to explain them. Read more »
Created by: Susan McHale
September 10th, 2020