Facing History and Ourselves This page has a wonderful list of teaching strategies that you can browse and use. It gives instructions on how to use the strategy if you click on the strategy name. Activate Background Knowledge Alphabet Brainstorm Probably gives me the most bang for my buck of all the strategies I use. I use this strategy to see what my students already know before we begin a unit. For example, I used this when I launched into a unit on perseverance by reading the play adapted from The Diary of Ann Frank. I call my graphic organizer a D.O.T.S. Chart. You can see it using the button below. Socratic Circles
This strategy is excellent for concluding a unit. There are several different ways to perform a Socratic discussion, so watch videos of YouTube and find one that you can utilize. Generic Writing RubricsI created this blog page for us to share and communicate with each other during our week together.
Lucy Calkins Teachers College of Reading and Writing This is one of the founder of the Writers Workshop and I highly recommend watching some of her YouTube videos. Heinnman Publishing is now selling her newest courses, Units of Study in Argument, Information, and Narrative Writing Middle School Series (6-8). Padlet This is a site where you can ask students' questions and they add their answers to the page through posts. |