Water Cycle in English

An annotated diagram is a visual that includes labels for each part of an image, text, or diagram that students are using in content-area instruction.

Boreal forest on map

Engineering a text is a strategy that embeds scaffolds and supports directly into grade-level text in order to increase student comprehension.

Drawing of the earth rotating

Sketchnotes are notes that students create from a video, lecture, text, or lesson incorporating labeled, simple drawings.

People at a beach

The Picture Word Inductive Model (PWIM) is a strategy to teach students sentence structure and content simultaneously.

Four students working together

Engineered templates provide scaffolds for assignments, reports, and in-class assessments such as prompts, guiding questions, sentence frames, and sentence stems.

Wind turbines

In this vocabulary practice activity, students match content words to pictures and explain why the picture represents that word.

See-Think-Wonder Boat chart

This visible thinking routine developed by Harvard Project Zero launches a unit or text with an image and uses students' observations, inferences, and questions to develop vocabular

Student writing on poster board

Running dictation is an active cooperative learning strategy in which students work in teams to accurately write down a text that is written on a paper in another location.

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