Students analyze images to activate prior knowledge, elicit interest in a unit of study or topic, and deepen understanding and connections.

Students analyze political cartoons using a structured approach to identify symbols, understand context, and interpret deeper meanings to build critical media literacy skills.

Conversation Circles facilitate discussion of text-inspired ideas in a structured format through movement and dialogue with peers.

Students are assigned/given a position to defend using text evidence; they are then paired with a peer to discuss opposing perspectives and counterclaims.

Four Corners promotes listening, peer communication, and decision-making through movement as students take stands on controversial statements and ideas.

Students engage in the reciprocal exchange of ideas by sharing their insights and observations with multiple partners about a question, image, or text.

This directed visual analysis tool requires students to critically examine image components such as objects and lighting to form ideas.

This metacognitive discussion tool asks students to be flexible and reflective listeners and thinkers and evaluate their statements about topics.

Students create vocabulary journals that connect academic terms to visual elements, personal experiences, and cultural knowledge to build language.

K-W-L is a graphic organizer/chart system students use to determine what they already know, what they want to know, and what they learned during a lesson.

Students bridge informal and formal language through structured documentation, building awareness of language differences and academic vocabulary.

Teachers use a structured matrix to plan comprehensive language supports across receptive and productive domains for MLL student success.

Students develop visual perceptual skills by analyzing and sorting portraits to uncover meaning behind artistic renderings of individuals and groups.

See-Think-Wonder graphic organizers help students unpack visual stimuli by documenting their observations, interpretations, and questions about images.

Students build vocabulary by examining how words and related traits connect to one another by charting their relationships on a provided matrix.

Students use four scaffolded questions to activate prior knowledge, refine ideas, and share viewpoints, supporting reasoning and giving teachers valuable feedback at any point in a lesson.