Teaching Tools
Brownsville Conference Handout for Grades 6-12
This is the 6th-12th Grade playbook page shared at the LISTO conference on November 16, 2024.Brownsville Conference Handout for third-Fifth Grades
This is the third through fifth grade playbook page shared at the LISTO conference on November 16, 2024.Brownsville LISTO Conference Handout PK-2nd grade
This is the PK-2nd Grade playbook page shared at the LISTO conference on November 16, 2024.Where Am I Now?
Having students self-assess their mastery over the unit learning targets is a powerful way to accelerate learning and give students agency in their own learning. This chart can be used by students to record and monitor their progress through a unit of study.Connect 8 Sentence Combining
This activity integrates science or social studies information with the writing skill of sentence combining.Fabulous Five Topic Vocabulary
Using this table, students select the 5 most important words related to the central idea. They write a sentence explaining the importance of the word. As an extension, students revise the sentence to create a complex or compound sentence that elaborates on the original sentence idea.Knowledge Journal
A knowledge journal is used to help learners keep track of new and important information learned during a topic or theme study. The journal questions asks the learner to reflect on how the new information changes their thinking.
Guess in 10 Directions
A game designed to help young children develop critical thinking and conclusion-drawing skills while learning about animals, places, or other topics.Quick Write or Draw
This technique is great for reluctant writers! Provide students with an opinion question. Make sure the question evokes emotion and students can relate to it. Students write as much as they can, as fast as they can, as good as they can for a short time period. Remove all barriers to writing by emphasizing that this writing will NOT be for a grade. Students can use the writing piece in a later lesson for revising and editing practice.The Educator's Playbook-Vocabulary Instruction
The Educator's Playbook for Vocabulary Instruction is a comprehensive resource designed to provide teachers with strategies and techniques to support vocabulary development in their students. In the playbook, teachers will find a variety of direct and indirect instructional methods. Each strategy is tailored to specific student needs, from activating prior knowledge to synthesizing new learning and using vocabulary in writing and discussions.Categories
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