Creating and Interviewing Characters
To help my students develop the characters in their stories, I’ve had them focus on making characters that seem like real people. My theory is that if students can create...
Three Stars and a Wish
The advantage of this assessment tool is the ratio of positive to negative comments helps mitigate hurt feelings. Three Stars: good things, positives, successes One Wish: one thing you wish...
PMI: Plus, Minus, Interesting
This is a quick and easy to learn routine for helping students reflect on advantages and disadvantages of a topic, decision, or experience. I use it with my students when...
Text to Self, Text, and World
This is a Microsoft Word template I made to help students make connections to what they are reading. It has three columns: text to self, text to text, and text...
Discussion Operations Cards
We conduct a lot of group discussions in my class. Often the format starts with an engaging question or challenge to start their curiosity, then moves on to a discussion...
My Six Thinking Hats Poster Booklet
A couple years ago I made this set of Six Thinking Hats posters to use with my Grade Four students. I combined several useful Six Thinking Hats resources into one...