Instructional Resource Collection

Teaching Strategies - Convey Ideas in Writing

  • Admit Slips and Exit Slips
  • Affinity Diagram
  • Biopoems
  • Book Clubs and Peer Discussion Groups
  • Brainstorming Activities (Guidelines)
  • Cause and Effect Chain
  • Clustering
  • Concept Circles
  • Concept of Definition Word Maps
  • Conduct an Interview
  • Copy Change
  • Creating a Classroom Magazine
  • Descriptive Writing
  • Dialogues
  • Discussion Webs
  • Do I Really Know It?
  • Helping Students in the Writing Process
  • Herringbone
  • I-Charts
  • Literature Circles
  • Magnet Summaries
  • Matrices or Charts (also called Semantic Feature Analysis or Distinctive Features Activity)
  • Opinion-Proof
  • R.A.F.T.: Role, Audience, Format, Topic
  • Ready, Set, Recall
  • Save the Last Word for Me (Adaptation)
  • Semantic Mapping
  • Strategies to Support Collaboration
  • Think Alouds
  • Think Sheets
  • Timeline
  • Types of Journals
  • Unsent Letters
  • (Write and Share)2








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