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Connections Coding
Students annotate a text extract using symbols or colour codes to identify three types of connection: text-to-self (TTS), text-to-text (TTT)…
Connections Text Walk
A collaborative gallery walk where five to eight text extracts are placed around the room on A3 paper. Small groups rotate between extracts …
Context Walk
A variation of the Text Walk that uses multimodal contextualising resources — nonfiction, fiction, photographs, artwork and video — rather t…
Connections Map
Students create a concept map (mind map) of all the connections they have made with a text. Working on large paper or digitally, students ma…
Sensory Scenes
Students annotate a text extract for sensory details across all five senses, then complete a graphic organiser with a drawing of the scene a…
Soundscapes
Students create an aural landscape of a scene from the text using digital sound-editing tools (such as GarageBand or Audacity). They annotat…
Line-by-Line Visualisation
Students work in pairs, sitting back-to-back. One partner reads an extract aloud, pausing at each sentence, while the other draws the scene …
Reading in Role
A dramatic activity where students prepare and perform a characterisation from a text extract. Students annotate the text with performance n…
Four Questions
Students learn four levels of questioning aligned with Bloom's taxonomy: knowledge and comprehension, application, analysis, and synthesisin…
Why? Why? Why?
Starting from a teacher-provided declarative statement about a text, students form a "Why…?" question, then swap with a partner to answer it…
Text Interrogation
Students interrogate a text from multiple angles using a three-layer concentric circle framework: the broad context (what was happening in t…
Deep Questions
Completed at the end of a text study, students identify key moments in the text and brainstorm five to ten questions at the analysis or synt…
QPCI
Quote — Paraphrase — Connection — Inference. Students identify key quotes from a text, then work through four columns: the quote itself, a p…
Read Between the Lines
Students work with a double-line-spaced extract and write a single sentence of analysis beneath each line, exploring meaning that could come…
Meaning Map
A concept-mapping activity where students map all the deeper meanings in a text — phrased as questions, statements, or themes and values — w…
How Do They Feel? How Do You Know?
Students identify moments where a character experiences a strong emotion, then demonstrate how the author has shown (rather than told) that …
Guided Summary
A structured five-step process: (1) underline passages containing main ideas, (2) write a list of the main ideas, (3) combine similar ideas …
Key Idea Paraphrase
Students identify five key terms or ideas from a text, optionally find synonyms, and then use those key terms to write a new paragraph entir…
10 Words or Less
Students must summarise the key ideas of a text in a single sentence of 10 words or fewer. This forces extreme precision and accuracy with l…
Elevator Pitch
Students "sell" the main idea of a text using a three-part "Gaddie pitch" structure: "You know how…" (identify the problem or issue the text…
Mega Map
A comprehensive mind map that pulls together all ideas from across a course of study — characterisation, narrative structure, language, imag…
Strategy Hub
A graphic organiser that collects the key information from each of the five other strategies into one page. Students transfer key ideas from…
Synthesising Mood Board
Students create a collage of words, images, colours and textures that captures the essence of a text, drawing on multimodal resources. The m…
The Text File
A cumulative document that evolves over an entire unit of work, serving as a record of all interesting points, character observations, theme…
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