Sentence deconstruction is a strategy that helps students break down dense and lengthy sentences found in academic texts.
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.
Engineering a text is a strategy that embeds scaffolds and supports directly into grade-level text in order to increase student comprehension.
Sketchnotes are notes that students create from a video, lecture, text, or lesson incorporating labeled, simple drawings.
Sentence patterning charts are similar to sentence frames, but offer students more choice and explicitly
The Picture Word Inductive Model (PWIM) is a strategy to teach students sentence structure and content simultaneously.
Engineered templates provide scaffolds for assignments, reports, and in-class assessments such as prompts, guiding questions, sentence frames, and sentence stems.
In this protocol, students work together to synthesize their collective understanding of the text.
In this vocabulary practice activity, students match content words to pictures and explain why the picture represents that word.
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