The Collaborative Classroom 

Establish routines: Making daily classroom activities predictable will help your students use their cognitive resources for the things that matter most - learning! Remember, routines will need to be taught and reviewed to make sure all students know what's expected of them.

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Visual Schedule

Visual Timer

Checklists - here's one for writing sentences (Superhero Swag)

Visual supports 

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Pre-teach concepts: Activate students' background knowledge and teach new vocabulary before starting a new book or unit.

 

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Semantic web

KWL Chart 

Student Friendly Definitions

Word Matching Games - match to the definition or to a synonym

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Meta-cognitive strategies: Engage your students in thinking about thinking. Model your own thought process out loud to show students how to reason and explain their thinking.

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Think Alouds

Visualization

Rehearsal

Self-talk 

EF Superheroes

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Teacher mediated strategies: Help your students be successful in the classroom by thinking about how you say things and what you say.

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Paraphrasing

Reduce rate of speech

Summarizing

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