Forty Best-practice
Instructional Activities

Explore these best-practice instructional activities to engage your students in authentic learning:

• Alliteration

• AlphaAntics

• AlphaBoxes

• Anticipation Guide

• Artifact Box

• Attribute Chart

• Cause-Effect Frames

• Chain of Events

• Clarification

• Clue Collector

• Concept Map

• Creative Response

• Dialogue Journal

• Double-Entry Journal

• Expert Panel

• Fact or Fiction?

• Genre Analysis

• If I Were the Author

• Jigsaw Strategy

• KWL Chart/KWHL Chart

• Lead Preview

• ListMaker

• Mark Up the Text/ Comprehension Codes

• Prediction Plus Coding

• Questions for Details: 5 W's and H Strategy

• Quotables

• Reader’s Theater

• Round Robin Retell

• Share and Compare

• Sketch-to-Stretch

• Snapshot Sentences

• Spin and Share

• Stop and Share

• Synthesis Poetry

• Three-Column Recall Chart

• Timelines/Circle or Pie Charts

• Two-Word Reflection and Think-Ink-Pair-Share

• Venn Diagram

• VIPs: Very Important Points

• Word Webs

• Writer’s Strategies