teaching strategy
Community Inquiry
Value Lines
Students take a stance on a topic related to the central text and listen while classmates explain their stances.
July 13, 2014
5,329 Results
teaching strategy
Community Inquiry
Save the Last Word for Me (6-8, 9-12)
A comprehension strategy that builds speaking and listening skills through structured text-based discussion. Students record sentences from a text and then discuss their responses in small groups.
July 13, 2014
teaching strategy
Community Inquiry
Text-based Fishbowl
A strategy for organizing medium- to large-group discussions. Students are separated into an inner and outer circle. In the inner circle, or fishbowl, students have a text-based discussion; students in the outer circle listen to the discussion and take notes.
July 13, 2014
teaching strategy
Community Inquiry
Four Perspectives
A strategy to introduce the anti-bias framework into group discussion and textual analysis. Students respond to and pose questions from the four anti-bias domains: identity, diversity, justice and action.
July 13, 2014
teaching strategy
Community Inquiry
Socratic Seminar
A structured discussion in which students examine issues and respond to open-ended questions about a text. Students use dialogue rather than debate to communicate with each other.
July 13, 2014
teaching strategy
Community Inquiry
What Would They Say
A discussion strategy that asks students to infer how a particular author or character from a text would respond to questions and scenarios. Students must defend their conclusions using evidence from the text.
July 13, 2014
teaching strategy
Community Inquiry
Critical Listening Guide
A guide to help students interpret, analyze and evaluate information encountered in a variety of media formats. Use this guide with the spoken and performed texts included in the Perspectives anthology.
July 13, 2014
article
“You Guys”?
In a world where words matter, why is there little to no real critical conversation about the mixed-gendered use of “you guys”?
article
The Criminalization of Elementary Students
One after-school programmer reflects on the criminalization of youth.
text
Visual
I Am a Man
Richard L. Copley took this photograph in 1968 at the Memphis sanitation workers' strike -- the reason Martin Luther King Jr. was in Memphis on the day he was killed.
July 9, 2014