12 Practices to Activate, Support, and Reveal Thinking

Actively Learn helps teachers bring each of these practices to their classrooms.

Activate Thinking

Three Tips for Successfully Modeling Expert Reading

Strategic Annotation

Thinking Like an Expert Reader

Higher-order Questioning

How to Ask Great Questions

Reading as a Shared Exploration

Support Thinking

How to Use Technology to Expand Access to Text

Vexed by Vocab: 5 Common Mistakes in Teaching New Words

How to Scaffold Texts for Growing Readers

Background Knowledge

The Importance of Knowledge for Thinking and Learning

Reveal Thinking

Formative Assessment

Tracking Student Learning in Real Time

The What, Why, and How of Mastering Metacognition

Writing extensively

Improving Student Writing with Actively Learn

Effective Feedback

How to Make Feedback Effective to Reach Deeper Learning