This teaching strategy was originally designed for use in a face-to-face setting. For tips and guidance on how to use this teaching strategy in a remote or hybrid learning environment, view our Wraparound (Remote Learning) teaching strategy.
This teaching strategy was originally designed for use in a face-to-face setting. For tips and guidance on how to use this teaching strategy in a remote or hybrid learning environment, view our Wraparound (Remote Learning) teaching strategy.
To implement the Wraparound strategy, you pose a question or prompt to the class and then have each student share aloud their quick response. This strategy provides an efficient way for all students in a classroom to share their ideas about a question, topic, or text, revealing common themes and ideas in students’ thinking. Wraparound activities can also be provocative discussion starters.
Select-a-Sentence: After reading a long text, instruct students to select one sentence that resonates with them or seems to be an important idea. Have students read that sentence aloud. Be sure to tell students to listen for common themes. It is okay if the same sentence is read more than one time. This exercise can also be done at the very beginning of a class, using the previous night’s reading assignment. In this way, everyone will be able to have some ideas about the text, even if they did not do the reading.
Use this strategy in remote settings to invite all students to share brief responses during a synchronous session or asynchronously.
Help students approach challenging texts by breaking down content into manageable pieces.
Use this strategy to improve students’ reading skills and help them connect ideas in a text to their own lives, current events, and history.
Students explore a poem by James Berry about the ways we respond to difference and complete a creative assignment about their school or community.