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Teacher Toolkit

The Teacher Toolkit is a collection of "best practice" strategies that you can use in your classroom.  If you need to know more about a strategy or how to implement it, click on the strategy.  I've linked each strategy to a how-to page or an example.  They're organized by three different categories: Text strategies, AVID strategies, and vocabulary strategies. Enjoy!

Text Strategies

Preparing for the Text

Interacting with the Text

Interacting with the Text

  • Quickwrite
  • Anticipatory Guide
  • Preview Vocab–Frayer Model
  • Activate Prior Knowledge through Visuals
  • Preview with Visual Imagery
  • Preview of the Text
  • Text Walkthrough
  • Making a Prediction
  • Goal Setting for Reading
  • KWL Chart
  • Think-Pair-Share
  • Concept Sort
  • First Lines
  • Possible Sentences
  • THEIVES Pre-Reading

Interacting with the Text

Interacting with the Text

Interacting with the Text

  • Graphic Organizers/Concept Maps
  • Thinking Maps
  • Cornell Notes
  • Say-Mean-Matter Chart
  • Viewing with a Purpose (video/film)
  • Jigsaw
  • Inquiry Chart
  • Annotating the Text
  • Think Aloud
  • Making Inferences
  • Developing Questions
  • Drawing/Visual Notes
  • Comprehension Questions/Text-Dependent Questions
  • Think-Pair-Share
  • Text Chunking
  • Analyze the Author’s Craft
  • Choral Reading
  • HAPPY or CAPS (Context, Audience, Author, Significance)
  • SOAPSTONE
  • Author's Purpose Chart
  • Deconstruct a Math Word Problem

Extending the Text

Interacting with the Text

Extending the Text

  • Critical Thinking Questions
  • Academic Conversations
  • Exit Slips
  • Sum It Up (As You Go)
  • Writing:
    • Informational Essay
    • Argumentative Essay
    • Reflection
    • Storyboard/Comic Strip
    • Narrative Story/Essay
    • Poems
    • Editorial/Video Review
  • Projects:
    • Presentations (slides or poster)
    • One-pager
    • DBQ
    • Adopting a Persona: Poem or creative writing/journal entry
    • Create a Political Cartoon or Meme
  • Debates/Philosophical Chairs
  • Socratic Seminars
  • Describing a Historical Event
  • QAR

AVID WICOR Strategies

Writing

Collaboration

Writing

  • Reciprocal Teaching
  • Double-Entry Journals
  • Reflection Writing
  • 3-2-1 Assignment
  • Quickwrite
  • Learning Logs
  • Graphic Organizers
  • Thinking Maps
  • Exit Slips
  • Sum It Up (As You Go)
  • Informational Essay
  • Argumentative Essay
  • Storyboard/Comic Strip
  • Narrative Story/Essay
  • Poems
  • Editorial/Video Review
  • One-pager
  • DBQ Essay
  • Describing a Historical Event

Inquiry

Collaboration

Writing

  • DBQ Process
  • Viewing with a Purpose (video/film)
  • Jigsaw
  • Inquiry Chart
  • Think Aloud
  • Making Inferences
  • Science Labs
  • Math Table Talks
  • Debates/Philosophical Chairs
  • Socratic Seminars
  • QAR
  • SQ5R
  • Critical Thinking Questions
  • Webquest or Internet Scavenger Hunt (extra info here)
  • Virtual Reality Field Trip in Nearpod

Collaboration

Collaboration

Collaboration

  • DBQ “Thrash-Out”
  • Math Table Talks
  • Debates/Philosophical Chairs
  • Socratic Seminars
  • Science Labs with partners/groups
  • Four Corners
  • Gallery Walk
  • Peer-Editing Checklist
  • Parallel Problem Solving in Math
  • Group work protocols
  • Academic Conversations

Organization

Organization

Collaboration

  • Graphic Organizers/Concept Maps
  • Thinking Maps
  • Cornell Notes
  • Say-Mean-Matter Chart
  • RAFT
  • T-Charts
  • 3-Column Notes
  • KWL + A (apply) for Math
  • Foldables
  • Interactive Notebooks:  paper or digital
  • Binder Organization
  • GRAPES for World History

Reading

Organization

Reading

  • Anticipatory Guide
  • Say-Mean-Matter Chart
  • Comprehension Questions/Text-Dependent Questions
  • Text Chunking
  • Analyze the Author’s Craft
  • Choral Reading
  • HAPPY or CAPS (Context, Audience, Author, Significance)
  • SOAPSTONE
  • Author's Purpose Chart
  • Deconstruct a Math Word Problem
  • Math Dictionary
  • Annotating the Text
  • THIEVES Pre-Reading
  • SSR

Vocabulary development strategies

Preparing for the Text

Interacting with the Text

Interacting with the Text

  • Frayer Model
  • Semantic Mapping
  • Word Wall
  • Flash Cards
  • Concept Sort
  • Nearpod
  • Possible Sentences
  • Wordless Story
  • Total Physical Response
  • Vocabulary Bingo
  • Vocabulary Cards
  • Vocabulary.com

Interacting with the Text

Interacting with the Text

Interacting with the Text

  • Frayer Model
  • Vocabulary Notebook
  • Semantic Mapping
  • Word Map/Tree Map
  • Nearpod
  • Cornell Notes
  • Say/Mean/Matter
  • Cloze Reading
  • Wordless Story
  • Vocabulary Bookmarks
  • 3-2-1 Vocab Assignment
  • Math Dictionary

Extending the Text

Interacting with the Text

Extending the Text

  • Semantic Mapping
  • Flash Cards
  • Exit Slips
  • Quizlet
  • Kahoot
  • Word Box
  • Word Reflection
  • Word Map/Tree Map
  • Nearpod
  • Cornell Notes
  • Homonym Riddles
  • Analogies/Bridge Map
  • Synonym Map/Bubble Map
  • Vocabulary Bingo
  • Vocabulary Race
  • 3-2-1 Vocab Assignment
  • Vocabulary.com

  • GSA Advisors Help Site

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