Cubing: making paper cubes with questions such as: 1. What does it look like? 2. Where does it live? 3. What does it feel like? Etc. Can be used as activity in the beginning to assess what students know already, in the middle to expand their knowledge, or at the end to assess what they have learned. You can even use this for math problems as shown below!
Connect To: giving students words or having them come up with 2 lists of words, and then have students connect one word from one list to another word in the other list. They can be a stretch but it really makes them think. The activity can show you if students have any misconceptions about any of the words and the level of comprehension the students are at.
Manipulative Graphic Organizers: give your students words that can be put into categories and straws and let them take it away! This can be used for vocab in any subject: math (real numbers, non real numbers, integers, etc); science (warm-blooded, cold-blooded, mammals, birds, etc) social studies (Northeastern states, Southern states, etc); word study (nouns, adjectives, etc)...you get idea! I like that it's a hands-on graphic organizer!
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