Tools
Tools
ACADEMIC CONVERSATIONS
Idea Building Visual
Idea Building Visual
This visual helps students to use clarifications, supporting examples, and other "building blocks" to build up ideas.
Constructive Conversation Skills Poster (PDF)
This tool shows four important conversation skills, their icons, and sentence starters to help students engage in purposeful and extended interactions.
This tool shows four important conversation skills, their icons, and sentence starters to help students engage in purposeful and extended interactions.
This assessment tool helps users to observe conversations and take notes on what teachers are doing and can do, what students are doing and can do, and next steps.
Math Constructive Conversation Skills Poster
This tool helps students build four key conversation skills for working together on math ideas and problems.
Argument Balance Scale Visual Organizer (2D) Argument Balance Scale - (3D version)
This visual helps students to evaluate and weigh the evidence for and against two different positions.
Math Paired Conversation Protocol (PDF)
This tool guides pairs through an effective conversation to collaboratively solve complex math problems.
Argumentation Activities
This set of activities helps students practice their abilities to build and challenge ideas using evidence-based reasoning.
Causes & Effects Visual Organizer (PDF)
This visual helps students to engage in cause and effect thinking and assign values to their ideas.
Math Constructive Conversation Skills Poster
This tool helps students build four key conversation skills for working together on math ideas and problems.
Argument Balance Scale Visual Organizer (2D) Argument Balance Scale - (3D version)
This visual helps students to evaluate and weigh the evidence for and against two different positions.
Math Paired Conversation Protocol (PDF)
This tool guides pairs through an effective conversation to collaboratively solve complex math problems.
Argumentation Activities
This set of activities helps students practice their abilities to build and challenge ideas using evidence-based reasoning.
Causes & Effects Visual Organizer (PDF)
This visual helps students to engage in cause and effect thinking and assign values to their ideas.
IDEA-BUILDING APPROACH
Idea Building Visual
This visual helps students to use clarifications, supporting examples, and other "building blocks" to build up ideas
Authentic Communication Design and Observation Tool
This tool helps teachers to use three features of authentic communication to improve language development activities across disciplines.
Idea Building Visual
This visual helps students to use clarifications, supporting examples, and other "building blocks" to build up ideas
Authentic Communication Design and Observation Tool
This tool helps teachers to use three features of authentic communication to improve language development activities across disciplines.
Wide-Angle Reading Frame
This visual helps students to create a mental framework before and during reading in order to keep the purpose(s) of the text in mind.
Literature Theme Organizer
This visual helps students to see ways in which to generate and support multiple themes from different types of texts.
Narrative Structure Map
This visual helps students to organize events in a typical narrative when they are reading or writing.
STUDENT PERSONAL GROWTH
Wide-Angle Reading Frame
This visual helps students to create a mental framework before and during reading in order to keep the purpose(s) of the text in mind.
Literature Theme Organizer
This visual helps students to see ways in which to generate and support multiple themes from different types of texts.
Narrative Structure Map
This visual helps students to organize events in a typical narrative when they are reading or writing.
STUDENT PERSONAL GROWTH
FORMATIVE ASSESSMENT
STRUCTURED INTERACTIONS
Stronger & Clearer Each Time Overview
This overview describes how to help students build language and content as they talk with successive partners.
Stronger & Clearer Each Time Overview
This overview describes how to help students build language and content as they talk with successive partners.
This activity helps students to speak in paragraphs and use academic transitions as they share both sides of an issue.
INFO GAP ACTIVITIES
These activities provide or leverage different information to students in a pair or group who need to share it and listen to others in order to accomplish a task.
- A-B Form - Store (Turkish)
- Animal Adaptation Cards
- Four poems on poetry
- Four paintings info gap
- Four views of government
- Leo Lucky Number math info gap
- Four poems on nostalgia
- Four linear equation problems
- Four Reasons for Exercise
- Italian Artist Cards (4 cards)
- A-B Information Gap Cards
Write-Talk-Write
Collaborative Narrative Writing