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Actively Learn - Activate, Support, and Reveal Student Thinking in Assignments

Activate supports in Actively Learn to reveal student thinking.

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Reading for depth happens when teachers Activate, Support, and Reveal student thinking. Try the following in their next assignment. Refer to the attach articles for more instruction on applying these features.

Creating Assignments

Activate

Add the learning objectives for the assignment in the directions to focus students reading.

Support

Insert a scaffolding note with an image or video that helps explain a complex idea.

Resources

Customize Text Assignments

Customize Video Assignments

Instructions for Students While Reading

Activate

Ask students to take two notes related to the learning objective. Encourage them to categorize their notes to drive metacognition.

Resource: Annotate Texts as a Student

Support

Ask students to look up at least two words using the built-in dictionary to increase awareness of new vocabulary.

Resource: Student Reading Aids

Grade Assignments

Reveal

Grade one short answer question in class as students are working to provide them with immediate feedback. Then give them a chance to revie their response to put that feedback promptly into action.

Resource: Revise Student Answers

Reveal

Anonymize student names and grade one question as a class to clarify expectations for student work. This can by done by unchecking the See classmates' names with their responses in the Assignment Settings.

Resource: Assignment Settings

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