Encourage students to reflect on what they are thankful for with the TWR Gratitude Journal. Using TWR strategies, this journal helps students articulate their thoughts on gratitude. As always, customize to meet your students’ needs. This resource is also available in Spanish.
This Watch & Learn video provides educators with practical strategies for using deliberate practice to help students not only master TWR strategies but also apply these skills as they revise unelaborated paragraphs and transition into independent writing. Additionally, it explores two approaches for planning and integrating a series of TWR activities into the content they […]
In this “Watch and Learn” video, we review the customizable TWR note-taking templates available in the Resource Library. Specifically, we explore templates designed for students to use when annotating a text. Note-taking is a critical skill, but one that students often do not develop naturally. Explicitly teaching students a structured note-taking system can greatly enhance […]
Explore a series of TWR activities designed to enhance and assess students’ reading comprehension of the article,”The Season of Fall: A Time of Transformation.” Students will complete a variety of sentence-level activities, an SPO activity, and new note-taking activities. This resource has
In this engaging, hands-on activity, students explore the life cycle of a pumpkin through the article “The Journey of a Pumpkin.” After reading, they complete a TWR Transition activity and a Single Paragraph Outline (SPO). Additionally, students have the option to decorate their writing with a cut-and-paste pumpkin craft, making it ideal for a fall […]
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.
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 […]
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.
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.
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 […]
