Get ready to start the year with our engaging “Back-to-School Selfie” activity! Students will complete appositive activities or Single-Paragraph Outlines (SPOs) to describe themselves, showcasing their unique qualities and interests. Once they’ve completed their TWR activity, they have the option to add a “selfie” to their work. This fun exercise not only helps students practice […]
This is an example of an introductory because, but, so lesson. The lesson demonstrates a gradual release of instruction (“I do,” “We do,” “You do”) using familiar content. Customize the content to match your students’ background knowledge. See this lesson in action on our FAQ Webinar: “How Do I Introduce a Strategy for the First […]
This webinar offers educators tips and suggestions for implementing a new TWR strategy for the first time. Included in the webinar is a sample introductory lesson on because, but, so. Please visit our Content Examples section of the Resource Library to find slides from this lesson on the webinar.
Discover how TWR can transform your novel studies and read-alouds, and explore our new SPO Book Report Template! All resources mentioned in the webinar are available in the Content Examples and Customizable Templates sections of the Resource Library.
Explore a series of TWR activities designed to enhance and assess students’ reading comprehension of 90 Miles to Havana by Enrique Flores-Galbis. This bundle provides a range of sentence-level and SPO activities that can be integrated before, during, or after read-alouds or reading lessons. Additionally, it includes an SPO Book Report activity for students to […]
Use these general book report activities to enhance and assess students’ reading comprehension of a any novel. This bundle provides a range of sentence-level activieties and an SPO Book Report activity for students to complete at the end of the novel.
Ms. LoCasto teaches her ninth-graders how to generate details for a Single Paragraph Outline (SPO) about Galileo and his contributions.
Students complete several TWR activities around the text “The Watsons go to Birmingham – 1963” by Christopher Paul Curtis.
Students complete several TWR activities around the text “Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry” by Mildred D. Taylor.
Students complete several TWR activities around the text “The House on Mango Street” by Sandra Cisneros.
