🎨 Color-Symbol-Image
The Color, Symbol, Image (CSI) strategy is recommended by the University of Oklahoma's K20 Center for use with high school students, but could be adapted for use with elementary and middle school students. After students have been introduced to a new concept, they use the template to the right to pick a color, symbol, and image that metaphorically match the concept. This strategy allows students to initially connect their prior knowledge to new concepts, without using written words or oral language. Once the visual connections have been made in the top half of the template, students can share their CSI templates with partners, groups, or the whole class. Students can collaborate to complete the bottom rationale portion of the CSI template.
ABadCaseofStripes_TeacherActivityGuide.pdfStoryline Online
Sponsored and maintained by the Screen Actors Guild, Storyline Online offers a library of videos featuring actors reading children's stories. Sean Astin, aka Mikey, Rudy, & Gamgee, reads A Bad Case of Stripes. Rami Malek, aka Freddie Mercury, reads The Empty Pot. Storyline Online has over 70 books to choose from. Not only will you get access to the actor-reading video, there are CCSS aligned Teacher's Guides that accompany each video with cross-curricular connections. The supplemental curriculum was developed by an elementary teacher with the specific goal of improving English-language learners' comprehension, verbal and written skills.
🔤 ABC Graffiti
To the right is a digitized version of The ABC Graffiti instructional strategy, typically completed using poster papers and markers. It's a brainstorming strategy designed to activate prior knowledge and promote thinking about a specific topic, concept, or text.
How the strategy works:
Write a topic on the board/ announce the topic to the class.
Share the ABC Graffiti template on Google Classroom, giving all students edit access.
Hand out letter cards to the class. The letter students receive is the first letter they will begin adding words and phrases to in the shared slide deck.
Set a 2-minute timer, and announce “rotations” every two minutes. Students begin adding words and phrases for the next letter in the alphabet.
Stop when the slide deck is complete & project the results to the class.