teaching strategy
Community Inquiry
Readers' Theater
During a readers’ theater, two or more students dramatize a text by reading expressively.
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teaching strategy
Community Inquiry
Text Treasure Hunt
Student teams look for clues and respond to questions that help them identify details, organization, inferences and comparisons in the central text.
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teaching strategy
Community Inquiry
Affirmation Interview
During Affirmation Interview, students practice verbal and non-verbal communication in the roles of “interviewer” and “interviewee.”
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teaching strategy
Community Inquiry
Artifact Add-ons
Artifact Add-on asks students to select and share real-life objects that illustrate concepts and ideas from the central text.
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teaching strategy
Community Inquiry
Lifting the Text
Students choose an important sentence or phrase from the central text and participate in a structured class discussion about the “lifted” text.
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teaching strategy
Community Inquiry
Fishbowl
Fishbowl is a strategy for organizing medium- to large-group discussions. Students are separated into an inner and outer circle. In the inner circle, or fishbowl, students have a discussion; students in the outer circle listen to the discussion and take notes.
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teaching strategy
Community Inquiry
Value Lines
Students take a stance on a topic related to the central text and listen while classmates explain their stances.
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teaching strategy
Community Inquiry
Text-based Fishbowl
A strategy for organizing medium- to large-group discussions. Students are separated into an inner and outer circle. In the inner circle, or fishbowl, students have a text-based discussion; students in the outer circle listen to the discussion and take notes.
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teaching strategy
Community Inquiry
Four Perspectives
A strategy to introduce the anti-bias framework into group discussion and textual analysis. Students respond to and pose questions from the four anti-bias domains: identity, diversity, justice and action.
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teaching strategy
Community Inquiry
Socratic Seminar
A structured discussion in which students examine issues and respond to open-ended questions about a text. Students use dialogue rather than debate to communicate with each other.
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