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Video 5: Narrative Language, Retell This video from What Works Clearinghouse’s PLC facilitator’s guide depicts a first grade class engaging in a retell activity.
New Words Game: Expanding Vocabulary (Virtual Tour) Designing a card game using new and interesting words is a motivating activity to help students build their vocabulary.
Grade K-2: Inferencing Strategies Inferencing strategies include Picture Walks, Character Inference Charades, and Stay or Switch.
Poetry and science Dr. Sylvia Vardell talks about the relationship between poetry and science, which is at the heart of The Poetry Friday Anthology for Science.
Poetry in Middle School Dr. Sylvia Vardell describes why poetry works in middle school, even if teachers and students are reluctant to try it at first.
The Page-to-Stage Writing Workshop Kwame Alexander has developed a kit with Scholastic that includes a teacher’s guide and a library of classroom demonstration videos.
Mary Amato discusses two of her novels written as collaborative journals Mary Amato introduces the concept of a collaborative journal.
Take Five Activity Dr. Sylvia Vardell walks through the “Take-Five” activity, a five-minute strategy for reading a short poem together.
