Actions:  Strategies and Methods

• Collaborative Communities
  • Community Building Exercises
  • Collaborative Learning Methods
  • Peer to Peer Coaching 
• Cultural Frame of Reference
  • Frame of Reference
  • Schema
  • Depth and Complexity
• Visual Tools
  • Thinking Maps®
  • Inductive Thinking with Visual Tools
• Questions and Inquiry
  • Powerful Questions
  • Socratic Seminar and Shared Inquiry
  • Anticipation Guide 
• Critical Thinking Environments
  • Environments:  Belief and Belonging
  • Environments:  People
  • Environments:  Objects
  • Environments:  Materials

• Comprehension
  • Essential Summaries
  • Facts and Inferences
  • Note Taking
  • Read-Talk-Map-Write
• Vocabulary
  • Dancing Definitions 
  • Key Word Notes
  • Key Vocabulary Prediction 
  • Sentence Transformation  
• Phonics, Spelling and Reading
  • Phonics and Spelling
  • Highly Recurring Phonic Elements 
• Writing Across the Content
  • Sentence Frames 
  • Thinking Maps® to Writing 
  • Reflection Models (Haiku, Metaphors, Symbolic, More)