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Making Words is a hands-on activity in which students learn how adding and moving letters can create new words.

Interactive “foldables” help students learn new vocabulary through defining, illustrating and using words in sentences.

My Pile, Your Pile is an interactive word game that increases students’ Tier Two and Tier Three vocabularies.

Meet New Vocabulary uses a graphic organizer to help students acquire new vocabulary while reading. This strategy is most effective when teaching challenging, domain-specific words (Tier Three).

A word wall is an organized display of vocabulary words drawn from central texts students are reading.

During resistant reading, students analyze the dominant reading of a text and “resist” it by engaging in alternative readings. Resistant readings scrutinize the beliefs and attitudes that typically go unexamined in a text, drawing attention to the gaps, silences and contradictions.

During a readers’ theater, two or more students dramatize a text by reading expressively.

Using either a Perspectives central text or their original work, children take on the role of “author,” reading the text aloud and facilitating a class discussion.

During Cracking the Code, students examine texts for bias related to race, gender, class, religion, age and sexual orientation, among other identity categories.

Students make connections to read-aloud texts by relating the text to themselves (lived experiences), to other texts (read in any setting) and to the world (current and historical events)