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Uses both English and home languages to build academic language skills. Helps students move from spoken to written language through authentic collaboration.

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Learners explore an already familiar topic (possible, a theme in guided reading) through connection making, wondering, building explanations, and synthesizing in order to achieve deeper meaning.

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​The Making Meaning thinking routine asks learners to explore an already familiar topic, concept, idea, or event through connection making, wondering, building explanations, and synthesising in order to achieve deeper learning. This routine highlights the notion of building understanding in a collaborative way. This routine can be used:

When students bring a lot of prior knowledge to the topic, concept, idea or event

When the class has been exploring a topic, concept, idea or event for a period of time

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​The Making Meaning thinking routine asks learners to explore an already familiar topic, concept, idea, or event through connection making, wondering, building explanations, and synthesising in order to achieve deeper learning. This routine highlights the notion of building understanding in a collaborative way.

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Learners notice and describe an image in ever increasing layers of detail. For young children or for students learning another language, the routine can also help to build language proficiency. It also helps boost working memory.

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Learners document the central story being told but then are asked to move beyond that (i.e., side stories and hidden stories).

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The Main Side Hidden thinking routine helps learners to examine things from different perspectives and explore multiple narratives evident in a text, animation, image or event.

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Learners watch a video or read a text in advance. Then, they create 2 questions they are interested in discussing. After which, they engage in a sequence of asking question, responding/sharing one's thinking, then summarizing the discussion.

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​The Leaderless Discussion creates an opportunity for students to own and drive the direction of a conversation and important topics and concepts. This routine can be used:

To engage students in discussion about a topic or concept, driven by their own questions.

To explore thinking related to a provocation - text, video, artefact, image etc.

As a teacher to listen to and observe the ideas and concepts coming to the surface as students work to develop understanding.

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The Leaderless Discussion thinking routine supports learners to engage in discussion and the sharing of ideas

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A simple tool to help EAL students learn key vocabulary words by using visuals, definitions, and examples. They can also make connections between English and their first language, as it supports their comprehension, builds their confidence, and honors their linguistic identity.

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One-line: Students take turns (each week) teaching four body parts (nose, ears, shoulders, feet) in their home language, then lead the class using the frame: “Simon Says touch your _______ (home word).”

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Students bring a short sentence from their family in their home language, translate it into English, and add a drawing. Together, the class builds a bilingual story collection.

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Students build a visual concept web around high-function unit words (e.g., family, community, school). Each web has drawings, English labels, and translations in students’ home languages. Together, the class creates a multilingual gallery wall

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Transform & Respond (Reading and Speaking)

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Transform & Respond (Reading and Speaking)

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Transform & Respond is a post-reading speaking activity where students take repeated sentence patterns from a predictive text and transform them (e.g., from a statement to a question)

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Break a word into sounds with phoneme fingers, mark the letter(s) for each sound with dots, then brainstorm at least three words for each sound-feature.

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A movement-based game where students practice different spelling patterns for the same sound (e.g., long a: a_e, ai, ay). Secret “moles” try to trick classmates into running to the wrong corner, making it fun and engaging.

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Students describe a secret object using adjectives (color, size, property, use) while classmates guess.