Best-Practice Instructional Activities

Use these Best Practice activities throughout your Journey North projects to engage students across the curriculum.

Alliteration

AlphaAntics

AlphaBoxes

Anticipation Guide

Artifact Box

Attribute Chart

Cause-Effect Frames

Chain of Events

Clarification

Clue Collector

Concept Map

Creative Response

Dialogue Journal

Double-Entry Journal

Expert Panel

Fact or Fiction?

Genre Analysis

If I Were the Author

Jigsaw Strategy

KWL Chart/KWHL Chart

Lead Preview

ListMaker

Mark Up the Text/ Comprehension Codes

Prediction Plus Coding

Questions for Details: 5 W's and H Strategy

Quotables

Reader’s Theater

Round Robin Retell

Share and Compare

Sketch-to-Stretch

Snapshot Sentences

Spin and Share

Stop and Share

Synthesis Poetry

Three-Column Recall Chart

Timelines/Circle or Pie Charts

Two-Word Reflection and Think-Ink-Pair-Share

Venn Diagram

VIPs: Very Important Points

Word Webs

Writer’s Strategies