What are the benefits of developing social awareness? Using the resource, readers learn strategies for fostering civil discourse, creating a participatory classroom, and enhancing family involvement. Scholars also take a personality...

This lesson discusses how to revise a paper based on peer feedback.

This strategy guide explains how you can employ peer review in your classroom, guiding students as they offer each other constructive feedback to improve their writing and communication skills.

[Free Registration/Login Required] At the completion of this lesson, students will be able to use the peer conference format to provide feedback to a peer.

Peer response helps students learn how to give constructive feedback to others, an important life skill. "Responding to Writing: Peer to Peer" visits the classrooms of three teachers-fifth-grade teacher Jack Wilde, seventh-grade teacher...

Use this printable template to help students self-assess their own writing as well as provide meaningful feedback for their peers.

A site for peer review is provided to accompany a research paper. An assessment rubric is shown that articulates performance levels.

This lesson engages learners in reading fluency practice. Teachers will modeling auditorily, use timed self-assessments, and ensure partners give feedback to motivate the students.

An in depth review process followed by a simple checklist to use for peer review of writing assignments.

Learn how to conduct effective peer and teacher writing conferences to improve student writing.

This Daily Teaching Tools resource provides a peer evaluation form. This reproducible form has nine areas for which peers will assess via a continuum of their opinions.

[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart is designed for students to have a guideline for evaluating a peer's stories. Once a peer or teacher has read another peer's story, this will guide you on traits to look for in a good...

Detailed lesson plans and materials designed for ELL/ESL students that has them observing, discussion and writing about, and from the perspective of, plants and animals. Students create a book (may be bilingual) to be reviewed by peers....

Prediction Relay is an activity that was developed as part of the Peer-Assisted Learning Strategies (PALS). PALS is a classwide peer tutoring program in which teachers carefully partner a student with a classmate. The Prediction Relay...

Students will follow a design process to create a video tutorial to demonstrate and teach something to others. They will learn how to use a screencasting tool to create and record a three-minute tutorial. They will make improvements to...

Create a classroom where students collaborate with others, recognize improvement in their work, and help each other strive to work harder.

To promote the use of formative assessment, the Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO) created a national initiative to promote the use of formative assessment. This document presents the definition of formative assessment, and...

Partner Reading is a cooperative learning strategy in which two students work together to read an assigned text. This strategy is often used as part of the Peer-Assisted Learning Strategies (PALS). PALS is a classwide peer tutoring...

Paragraph Shrinking is an activity developed as part of the Peer-Assisted Learning Strategies (PALS). PALS is a classwide peer tutoring program in which teachers carefully partner a student with a classmate. The Paragraph Shrinking...

[Free Registration/Login Required] Get a glimpse of how to use peer critiques through student-created rubrics to give students timely feedback so they can make their work better. Site includes a video and an article. [54:38]

The Paired Reading strategy encourages peer teaching and learning. Students are divided into pairs and read along together or take turns reading aloud to each other. Pairs can have the same reading ability or can include a more fluent...

Use role-play to set up and resolve conflicts, in this activity from Arthur.

Auburn University provides great, simple tips for young readers working to improve their ability to read and speak fluently. There are two methods outlined for improving oral fluency: "The direct approach," and "The indirect approach,"...

Using classroom management to conduct conferences with your students is a great way for you to get to know them better. In addition to that, conferences provide a platform for students to plan and set goals, reflect upon their work, and...