Learning Activity
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Description
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Web Tools and Apps (* denotes tool is a website AND an iPad App)
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Activate Prior Knowledge
Learning Activity Type:
Assessment
Curation
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Students think about what they already know about the topic and make connections prior to learning new information. By activating or generating prior knowledge and experience, students are able to frontload meaning and forge connections that help in terms of motivation, focus, and comprehension.
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Analyze Artifacts
Learning Activity Type:
Research
Curation
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Students explore a topic using physical or virtual artifacts, including data, text, images, etc.
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Analyze Data
Learning Activity Type:
Assessment
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Using student-generated data or print-based and digital data available online, students pursue original lines of inquiry and compare and contrast data collected against criteria and/or previous analyses
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Annotate
Learning Activity Type:
Writing
Collaboration
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Students make annotations in their own and others’ work based on observations and reflections related to relevant course concepts
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Answer questions
Learning Activity Type:
Assessment
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Students respond to teacher, peer, written, or digitally posed questions
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Ask questions
Learning Activity Type:
Assessment
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Students develop questions related to course material/concepts
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Book Club/ Literature Circles
Learning Activity Type:
Oral Language
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Students read books, take part in peer-led discussions, and participate in a community sharing session
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Brainstorm
Learning Activity Type:
Collaboration
Curation
Writing
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Students list as many topics as possible to write about
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Categorize/ Classify
Learning Activity Type:
Collaboration
Curation
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The student attempts to examine a concept or relationship in order to categorize it into a set of known categories or classify it according to course content
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Cloze Technique
Learning Activity Type:
Assessment
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Students insert words that have been omitted as they read to complete and construct meaning from text
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Collect/ Curate
Learning Activity Type:
Assessment
Curation
Collaboration
Research
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Students upload, collect, bookmark and organize resources, artifacts, materials, works, and research
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Compare and Contrast
Learning Activity Type:
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Students identify how things are alike and different in order to understand multiple characteristics, evidence, and/or perspectives on a topic
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Complete Graphic Organizers
Learning Activity Type:
Writing
Show What You Learned
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Students use teacher or self created visual and graphic organizers to illustrate relationships among facts, terms or ideas
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Concept Mapping
Learning Activity Type:
Research
Writing
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Students develop a visual or diagram that illustrates the relationships among concepts
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Conduct an Interview
Learning Activity Type:
Collaboration
Research
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Face to face, via audio/video conference, or via email students question someone on a chosen topic; may be digitally recorded and shared
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Conferencing
Learning Activity Type:
Collaboration
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Students conference (in person or online, or through audio or video) with each other and/or a teacher to share writing and provide focused feedback for one another
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Create a Game
Learning Activity Type:
Collaboration
Presentation
Show What You Learned
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Students combine rules, strategies, and knowledge to develop a game, in paper or digital form, to help other students learn content
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Create a Map
Learning Activity Type:
Presentation
Show What You Learned
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Students label existing maps or produce their own; print-based materials or digitally
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Create a Newspaper/ Magazine/ Newsletter/ Brochure
Learning Activity Type:
Presentation
Show What You Learned
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Students synthesize information from textbooks, encyclopedias, and/or websites in the form of a print-based or electronic periodical
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Create a Portfolio
Learning Activity Type:
Curation
Presentation
Show What You Learned
Research
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Students create and document ideas, works of art, documents and other artifacts in a portfolio format
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Create a Project/ Artifact
Learning Activity Type:
Research
Presentation
Show What You Learned
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Students create a project (e.g., play script, report, book trailer) or artifact (e.g., 3D model, diorama) as a culminating activity that illustrates or applies what they have learned
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Create a Timeline/ Sequence Information
Learning Activity Type:
Writing
Presentation
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Students sequence information, events, data and/or documents in chronological order
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Create an Illustration (accompanied by text)
Learning Activity Type:
Presentation
Show What You Learned
Writing
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Students create a map, a concept map, word pictures, a mural, or a storyboard to illustrate concepts, events, or topics related to a learning unit.
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Critical Analysis / Reflection
Learning Activity Type:
Writing
Show What You Learned
Presentation
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Students engage in activities focused on higher level, critical analysis including: applying literary theory/criticism, identifying multiple points of view, embedded values, bias, doublespeak, propaganda, etc., making inferences, evaluating sources, relevance, credibility, validity, etc.
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Critique
Learning Activity Type:
Writing
Show What You Learned
Presentation
Oral Language
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Students explain and articulate ideas verbally and critically while responding to products from a variety of social, historical and contextual perspectives
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Debate
Learning Activity Type:
Oral Language
Collaboration
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Students hold a formal or informal, structured or unstructured, synchronous or asynchronous discussion by debating both sides of an issue/proposition
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Define Terms
Learning Activity Type:
Writing
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Students use new and old vocabulary to compose a glossary of terms
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Demonstrate
Learning Activity Type:
Presentation
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Student makes a demonstration on some topic to show their understanding of an idea or process
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Describe
Learning Activity Type:
Writing
Oral Language
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Student produces an explanation of an object or concept
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Develop a Metaphor
Learning Activity Type:
Writing
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Students devise a metaphorical representation of a course topic/idea
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Develop Vocabulary
Learning Activity Type:
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Students are introduced to and learn unfamiliar key words before they read
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Directed/ Guided Reading
Learning Activity Type:
Curation
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Students are provided specific directions and guidance with a particular text that might range from setting a specific purpose for reading (e.g. to determine the reliability of the narrator) to a directed reading-thinking activity (DR-TA), to a detailed guided reading roadmap (i.e., slow down here, skim this, reread here and take notes, skip this section, etc).
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Discussion
Learning Activity Type:
Oral language
Collaboration
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Students engage in dialogue about text, a concept, or a process with a teacher, other students, or an external expert, synchronously or asynchronously
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Drafting/Composing
Learning Activity Type:
Writing
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Students write a draft, putting ideas into sentences and paragraphs
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Dramatic Reading/ Reader’s Theater
Learning Activity Type:
Oral Language
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Students participate in and observe dramatic readings of text to enhance interest, motivation, and comprehension
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Draw a Picture or Cartoon
Learning Activity Type:
Presentation
Show What You Learned
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Students create a physical or virtual drawing or caricature using a paper and pencil or digital format
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Drill and Practice
Learning Activity Type:
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Students rehearse a strategy or technique, and uses repetition and feedback in the practice process
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Engage in a Simulation
Learning Activity Type:
Research
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Students engage in experiences focused on a content topic that mirrors the complexity of the real world
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Estimate
Learning Activity Type:
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The student attempts to approximate some mathematical value by further examining relationships
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Evaluate self and/or peers
Learning Activity Type:
Collaboration
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Students observe their own or a peer’s performance and analyze the performance against predetermined criteria (form and/or product)
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Experience a Field Trip
Learning Activity Type:
Research
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Students travel to physical or virtual sites; synchronous/asynchronous
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Formal writing (essay, report, narrative, poem, diary, etc)
Learning Activity Type:
Writing
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Students use written forms to develop and express their own understandings of a given topic
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Freewriting
Learning Activity Type:
Writing
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Students start writing and just keep going, not worrying about style or mistakes
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Generate/ Collect Data
Learning Activity Type:
Research
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Students generate and collect data by performing and administering surveys, tests, experiments, etc.
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Identify Cause and Effect
Learning Activity Type:
Research
Oral Language
Writing
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Students identify how an action or event will produce a certain response to the action in the form of another event
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Independent Reading
Learning Activity Type:
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Students create or negotiate individual reading plans that involve reading chosen texts outside of school
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Interpret Maps, Charts, and Tables
Learning Activity Type:
Research
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Students extract and/or synthesize information from maps, carts, and/or tables
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Investigate a Concept
Learning Activity Type:
Research
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Students explore or investigate a concept by use of research-related resources
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Journaling
Learning Activity Type:
Writing
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Students write journal entries to brainstorm topics of personal interest, to note observations and to reflect upon their thinking
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Label
Learning Activity Type:
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Students use labels to define, categorize, or classify concepts; usually in a graphic or chart
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Listening
Learning Activity Type:
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Students listen to dialogue, directions, lectures, etc, and use knowledge and competencies to go beyond “getting what was said"
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Maintain a Log
Learning Activity Type:
Research
Writing
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Students record a log of activities, observations, perceptions, reflections on feelings; both in school and outside school
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Make Inferences
Learning Activity Type:
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Students use clues to learn more about the text and make a conclusion or judgment based on that information
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Make Predictions
Learning Activity Type:
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Students make predictions about text that will be read As a means of drawing upon existing knowledge and generating new connections with a text, students make predictions about texts.
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Outlining/ Listing
Learning Activity Type:
Writing
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Students generate and organize a list of topics, ideas, phrases, and/or sentences before they begin to write or create
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Picture Walk
Learning Activity Type:
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Teacher guides students through text by looking at and discussing the pictures before reading
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Presenting
Learning Activity Type:
Presentation
Collaboration
Show What You Learned
Writing
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Students combine textual and visual elements to share their understanding for peers/others; oral or multimedia format, synchronous or asynchronous
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Prototyping
Learning Activity Type:
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Students design ideas for 3-D fabrication of objects, sculptures and environments in physical or electronic form
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Quiz/Test
Learning Activity Type:
Assessment
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Students demonstrate their knowledge within the context of a testing environment, such as responding to questions on a test or quiz
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Read Text
Learning Activity Type:
Research
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Students extract information from textbooks, historical documents, census data, or other written materials, in either print or digital form
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Reading For Fluency (choral, paired, repeated, reader’s theater, recitation)
Learning Activity Type:
Oral language
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Students read aloud (as an entire group in unison, together with a fluent reader, aloud with a fluent reader then alone, with an audience present using a script, or in public)
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Recognize a Pattern
Learning Activity Type:
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Students examine a pattern presented to them and attempt to understand the pattern better
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Researching
Learning Activity Type:
Research
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Students gather, explore, analyze and synthesize information from print and/or digital resources that contain background information on course content
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Retelling
Learning Activity Type:
Writing
Collaboration
Oral Language
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Individually or in groups, students reflect upon and retell what they remember about a story, text, artifacts, or concepts
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Revising/ Editing
Learning Activity Type:
Writing
Presentation
Collaboration
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Students improve their writing and other products by adding details, rearranging information, deleting information, replacing information, and correcting mechanics, grammar and spelling
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Semantic Feature Analysis
Learning Activity Type:
Research
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Students use a grid to explore the similarities and differences among events, people, objects or ideas
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Solve a Puzzle
Learning Activity Type:
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Students carry out a strategy or technique within the context of solving an engaging puzzle
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Storyboarding/ Sequencing
Learning Activity Type:
Writing
Presentation
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Students organize ideas by outlining a series of images, actions, and text/voice
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Storytelling
Learning Activity Type:
Oral Language
Presentation
Show What You Learned
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Students tell stories or narratives often by improvisation or embellishment
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Summarizing
Learning Activity Type:
Writing
Oral Language
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Students summarize or paraphrase the major points of a text or multimedia presentation
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Take Notes
Learning Activity Type:
Writing
Research
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Students record essential ideas about what they are learning from text, lecture, live or recorded games, videos, presentations, or group work
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Teach
Learning Activity Type:
Presentation
Oral Language
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The student develops and delivers a lesson on a particular concept, strategy, or problem; sharing their understanding and relevant examples
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Think Aloud
Learning Activity Type:
Oral Language
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Students say out loud what they are thinking while reading
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Think-Pair-Share
Learning Activity Type:
Collaboration
Oral Language
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Students talk about the content they are reading by thinking about a question or prompt, pairing up with a student to discuss and sharing their thinking with rest of class
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View a Presentation/ Demonstration
Learning Activity Type:
Presentation
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Students gain information from teachers, guest speakers, and peers; moving images/objects (video, animations); synchronous/asynchronous; in-person or multimedia
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View images
Learning Activity Type:
Collaboration
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Students observe/examine static or animated, print or digital media from teachers, guests and peers; synchronous and asynchronous
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Visualize
Learning Activity Type:
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Students generate images and visual imagery while reading or listening to content and also to recall what they remember
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