The Head, Heart, and Conscience Strategy asks students to consider what they know, how they feel about a particular topic/event, and how others feel/are impacted by the topic/event.
During this activity, students brainstorm what they know about a given topic. After engaging with text, they revisit their brainstorm and identify words, ideas, etc. that were used in the text.
STARI is a literacy intervention designed to support adolescent struggling readers through high-interest and engaging texts, topics, and conversation that teach essential literacy skills such as decoding, fluency and comprehension strategies.
This resource is a framework for an activity where students explore historical, weather, or science phenomenons and analyze historical viewpoints through listening to aligned texts or audio about historical events.
This resource is a framework for teaching perspective taking through narrative texts using a story map and explicit instruction of mental state vocabulary. Students identify key points in the story and discuss characters’ thoughts and feelings throughout the narrative.
This strategy provides students with the opportunity to engage in rich, peer-to-peer, conversations with their classmates. This resource includes an overview of the strategy and clear directions to support implementation.
In this activity students are presented with picture cards and sentence cards. Students take turns matching the corresponding picture cards with sentence strips.
