Clarify and Extend Thinking

Student-student discussions.

Writing with intentional outcomes.

Choices to engage and interact.

Utilizing prompts in classroom discussions.

Use of sentence stems, discussion cards, visuals, and small group facilitation.

Use of prompts, criteria charts, rubrics, guided thought questions, word banks, stems, graphic organizers and pictures within instruction.

Various differentiated activities, stations, and centers.

Use of metacognative stems for student reflection.