#232
Last week in episode 231 I began a two-part series on using a simple story to show what CI looks like in real classroom practice. In this episode, I continue by building on the same story and walking through how CI activities help students stay engaged, deepen comprehension, and interact with the text in meaningful ways. These 2 episodes are focused on seeing familiar CI practices.
Topics in this Episode:
- CI Activity Episodes
- Episode 231: CI Activities in Practice in the Classroom., Part 1
- CI Toolbox
- Interaction and Discussion Activities
- Picture Talk: Picture Talk uses images to drive meaning-based discussion. The teacher asks simple questions so students describe what they see using familiar language.
- PQA: PQA connects story language to students’ own lives through highly scaffolded, repetitive questions, helping them acquire language through personal relevance
- Special Person Interviews: Students are interviewed using familiar structures, often taking on a role. The class listens and helps co-construct meaning.
- Card Talk: Students draw something meaningful to them, and the class discusses it using shared, high-frequency language.
- Weekend Chat: Weekend Chats build community and routine by talking about what students do on certain days, using simple present-tense language.
- Calendar Talk: Calendar Talk uses the daily date and routine events to recycle language in a predictable format.
- Reading and Writing Activities
- One Word at a Time: Students slowly build or reconstruct a sentence word by word, focusing on meaning and structure.
- Embedded Reading: Embedded readings move from very simple to more detailed versions of the same text, increasing comprehension and confidence.
- Volleyball Reading: Students take turns reading and clarifying meaning, often in pairs, with a strong focus on comprehension.
- Draw the Sentence: Students draw what a sentence says, then match it back to the text, reinforcing comprehension.
- Running Dictation: Students move, read, and reconstruct text collaboratively,
- Dictation with a Twist: Students hear a sentence and rewrite it with a small, controlled change, encouraging creative output within a safe structure.
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