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Forty Best-practice
Instructional Activities

(See Reading and Writing Connections for Journey North lessons that incorporate Content Area Reading Strategies)

Explore these best-practice instructional activities to engage your students in authentic learning:

What Are Instructional Activities? >>

Alliteration

AlphaAntics

AlphaBoxes

Anticipation Guide

Artifact Box

Attribute Chart

Cause-Effect Frames

Chain of Events

Clarification

Clue Collector

Concept Map

Creative Response

Dialogue Journal

Double-Entry Journal

Expert Panel

Fact or Fiction?

Genre Analysis

If I Were the Author

Jigsaw Strategy

KWL Chart/KWHL Chart

Lead Preview

ListMaker

Mark Up the Text/ Comprehension Codes

Prediction Plus Coding

Questions for Details: 5 W's and H Strategy

Quotables

Reader’s Theater

Round Robin Retell

Share and Compare

Sketch-to-Stretch

Snapshot Sentences

Spin and Share

Stop and Share

Synthesis Poetry

Three-Column Recall Chart

Timelines/Circle or Pie Charts

Two-Word Reflection and Think-Ink-Pair-Share

Venn Diagram

VIPs: Very Important Points

Word Webs

Writer’s Strategies

 
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