Craft Category: Strategies

Know-Wonder-Learn (KWL) Charts help educators identify prior student knowledge, build in opportunities for inquiry, and support student learning while measuring mastery and comprehension.

How to use non-verbal support (e.g., visual and auditory input) to communicate concepts, meaning, and to build vocabulary and content knowledge.

Framing words around their functions in a sentence to better support language acquisition along with content mastery

Say Something cards provide students who are learning English with scaffolded sentence stems to help guide conversations.

Students build interactive walls that include grammar tenses, content-based vocabulary, etc., that visualize the meaning and can be used as a tangible support during instruction as well as an additional way to build understanding.

The teacher uses a variety of teaching styles during a “think aloud” to explicitly model for students what they will be doing during their independent practice. This modeling process eventually moves from the teacher modeling to the teacher modeling alongside the student, to the student working independently.

Bilingual binders allow students who are learning English (EL) the ability to monitor and document their progress in a language that both feels comfortable and enables them to engage most fully.

Students build language proficiency within academic conversations through responding to teachers using complete sentences whenever they speak.

TLA, in partnership with EdSurge, conducted a comprehensive review of the scientific literature on adult learning and uncovered six key drivers that make for quality online learning for practitioners.

This video shares evidence from the learning sciences and a practitioner perspective around prior knowledge.