In this blog post written for Colorín Colorado, Rhode Island administrator and WIDA trainer Julie Motta walks through a read-aloud activity for first grade and highlights how she engaged the students with the story, brought in content-area connections, and included informal assessment to check comprehension.
The Picture Word Inductive Model (PWIM) is a strategy to teach students sentence structure and content simultaneously.
Sketchnotes are notes that students create from a video, lecture, text, or lesson incorporating labeled, simple drawings.
This in-depth article from Dr. Ruslana Westerlund explains why writing is hard for students and walks educators through a teaching and learning cycle that can help students develop writing skills within disciplinary genres across content areas.
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.