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Assignments Class Activities Close Reading Resources Seminar Practices Writing

Question and Claim Weekly Response Assignment

This weekly assignment invites students to generate a discussion question and a (provisional) claim about a shared reading.

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Assessment Assignments Close Reading Peer Review Resources Seminar Practices Student Engagement Writing

Online Peer Review

Drawn from the Lexicon of Migrations network course, this resource outlines a peer review session for a collaboratively produced dictionary of “Key Words.”

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Assignments Class Activities Close Reading Literature Resources Social Sciences Writing

Online Introductory Concept/Writing and Image Exercise

Through inviting students to write in a range of ways, this resource offers strategies to integrate deep reading and discussion of images into the classroom.

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Class Activities Close Reading Literature Resources Writing

Online Annotated Poetry Exercise

This resource offers a way to engage students in deep discussion of a poem through collaborative annotation using Google Docs.

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Assignments Class Activities Close Reading Discussion Literature Resources Seminar Practices Social Sciences Writing

Online Annotated Bibliographies

By outlining an online annotated bibliography activity, this resource shares an alternative way to engage students in reading, evaluating, and discussing primary and secondary sources.

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Class Activities Close Reading Discussion Images Literature Resources

Listen and Visualize Activity

This close reading activity models active listening while also engaging students through investigating a text by adding images.

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Class Activities Resources Seminar Practices Social Sciences Student Engagement Writing

Lexicon podcast proposal

This resource offers an example assignment that outlines a step by step process for inviting students to create a podcast with a partner or in small groups.

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Class Activities Close Reading Discussion Resources Seminar Practices Writing

Know, Want to Know, Learned Activity

This resource offers a structured activity that is useful when encouraging students to work collaboratively and ask probative questions when responding to texts of any kind.

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Assignments Class Activities Close Reading Discussion Literature Resources Seminar Practices Writing

IWT Practices Online

This resource offers a range of examples of how IWT’s writing-based teaching strategies can be translated for the online or blended learning environment.

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Ways to Blend Synchronous and Asynchronous Learning

This resource shares some ideas for how to engage students both synchronously and asynchronously.