Journey North Instructional Strategies

Instructional Activities

What Are Instructional Activities?
Reading and Writing Connections

Instructional activities are methods that educators use to help students engage in learning. Best-practice strategies provide for optimal engagement that develops enduring learning. Journey North’s lessons and activities provide teachers with a wealth of resources that engage students in real-world investigations that incorporate content area reading strategies (CARS).

Journey North’s lesson utilize research-based instructional strategies to help students develop essential skills as they delve deeply into their understanding of the world through texts with real people, events, and issues. The lessons that accompany reading selections incorporate engaging experiences that foster deep levels of understanding.