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For a couple of days students have been participating in a claim exercise where I taped excerpts from their current story up on wipebooks and gave them a claim "checklist" of sorts... They had 5 minutes in groups to read the excerpt and write claims. I have seen students become leaders today, two days after we started, who are never leaders in class. The repetition, the group work, I can't wait to see if they can do it now independently on their CERs.

Followup - Excellent transfer of skills on their CER!

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In high school Social Studies, students listened to past and present American National Anthems and then met in groups to discuss and develop a thesis on which one best represented the American identity.

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In middle school ELA, students meet in random groups to break apart a prompt and discuss which answer is the best response and why the other responses are not.

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In middle school ELA, student discussed in random groups how the dialogue in specified paragraphs contribute to the resolution of the story's conflict. Groups had to include a claim, at least 1 piece of evidence and reasoning to explain how the evidence supports the claim.

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In a high school English classroom, students were randomly/visibly grouped and provided with a variety of thinking tasks to review the morphemes and key vocabulary terms associated with our current unit.  Groups would rotate and continue to build on the previous group's thinking task after a set amount of time. 

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In this high school Psychology lesson, students researched in random groups of 3 the 5 Learning Theories and posted their findings on vertical whiteboards. Students then took part in a knowledge mobility activity in which they learned from the information posted in the room about all 5 learning theories, considered pros and cons to each and considered which learning theory(ies) they most often utilized in their own studies.