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Daily Teaching Tools

Daily Teaching Tools: Title and Task Tent Cards

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This Daily Teaching Tools resource provides an efficient strategy for the conducting of literature circles. Downloadable tent cards are provided for the following literature circle member roles: recorder, facilitator, summarizer, and...
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AdLit

Ad lit.org: Use the Cooperative Learning Model

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Cooperative learning fosters group accountability and provides struggling readers with the opportunity to work with stronger academic role models. Learn how to introduce this strategy in the classroom.
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Johns Hopkins University

School of Education at Johns Hopkins: Cooperative Learning Overview

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
How do you use cooperative learning in the classroom? The success of the group depends on the successful work of every individual. This site provides an overview of cooperative learning in the classroom, and the effect the method has on...
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Johns Hopkins University

School of Education at Johns Hopkins: Cooperative Learning Overview

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
How do you use cooperative learning in the classroom? The success of the group depends on the successful work of every individual. This site provides an overview of cooperative learning in the classroom, and the effect the method has on...
Website
Johns Hopkins University

School of Education at Johns Hopkins: Cooperative Learning Overview

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
How do you use cooperative learning in the classroom? The success of the group depends on the successful work of every individual. This site provides an overview of cooperative learning in the classroom, and the effect the method has on...
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Daily Teaching Tools

Daily Teaching Tools: Cooperative Learning: Great Grouping Strategies

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This Daily Teaching Tools resource provides ways to organize cooperative groups so that meaningful discussion will occur. It also offers a worksheet for determining learning styles that is useful to develop groups. SL.9-10.1c Active Partic
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Daily Teaching Tools

Daily Teaching Tools: Motivating Students: Pick a Card, Any Card

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This Daily Teaching Tools resource provides an efficient grouping strategy. Teachers will learn to motivate students with the "Pick a Card, Any Card" strategy. It explains how to use it to select parts for reading a play in class.
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Daily Teaching Tools

Daily Teaching Tools: Cooperative Learning: Great Grouping Strategies

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Strategies for grouping students during cooperative learning including Pick a Word, Tongue Depressors, Color Pencils, Group of the Day, Genre Groups, Burger Buddies, and Birthday Buddies.
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Daily Teaching Tools

Daily Teaching Tools: Cooperative Learning: Great Grouping Strategies

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Strategies for grouping students during cooperative learning including Pick a Word, Tongue Depressors, Color Pencils, Group of the Day, Genre Groups, Burger Buddies, and Birthday Buddies.
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Daily Teaching Tools

Daily Teaching Tools: Cooperative Learning: Great Grouping Strategies

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This Daily Teaching Tools resource provides cooperative learning strategies. Learning style assessments is a strategy suggested, along with several ways of randomly assigning students to groups.
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Daily Teaching Tools

Daily Teaching Tools: Cooperative Learning: Great Grouping Strategies

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Strategies for grouping students during cooperative learning including Pick a Word, Tongue Depressors, Color Pencils, Group of the Day, Genre Groups, Burger Buddies, and Birthday Buddies.
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Daily Teaching Tools

Daily Teaching Tools: Work as a Team to Achieve a Common Goal

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
This Daily Teaching Tools resource provides information about the importance of cooperation. Students will learn strategies to help students work together as a team.
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PE Central

Pe Central: People Puzzles: Communication and Cooperation Activity

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Using large shapes and patterns, this physical activity requires that students use effective oral communication to complete the group task.
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PBS

Pbs Teachers: Changing Your Mind: Nerve Cell Infomercials

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Build nerve cell models in cooperative groups, and articulate the structure and function of nerve cells to explore the nervous system. Describe specific elements of human physiology by "advertising" the nervous system in nerve cell...
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Reading Rockets

Reading Rockets: Using Collaborative Strategic Reading

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
In this article, the Collaborative Strategic Reading (CSR) technique is explained, along with research to support the use. The technique teaches students to use comprehension strategies, while working cooperatively, as they engage in the...
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Daily Teaching Tools

Daily Teaching Tools: Cooperative Learning: 7 Free Jigsaw Activities

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Step by step guidelines explaining how to use seven different Jigsaw Activities in the classroom.
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Readers Theater Rubric

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A printable four-point rubric to evaluate students for delivery and group cooperation during Readers Theater. Directions on how to use this rubric as well as lists of teaching ideas and related resources are also provided.