Rise and Shine
Purpose
Students get a partner based on common interests and collaborate to answer a question or complete a task.
Materials
- 4 numbered choices (e.g., 4 candy bars, 4 colors, 4 ice cream flavors, etc.)
- Questions, tasks, vocabulary words, visuals, or texts
Instructions
- Students choose their favorite item from a list of 4 numbered choices.
- Students hold up the number of fingers representing their favorite and then rise to find one or two students who have the same response.
- Pose a question, task, vocabulary word, visual, or text.
- Student pairs or triads shine as they collaborate to offer solutions, descriptions, examples, or responses to text.
- Observe students’ thinking and clarify/verify as appropriate.
Classroom Management
- Role-play how to get into pairs or triads by showing 1, 2, 3, or 4 fingers to represent a student’s choice.
- Ensure everyone has a thinking partner.
- Remind students there will be no harm or humiliation for incorrect answers because correcting mistakes is a sign of intelligence!
Differentiation
- Promote access by previewing the question, task, word, visual, or text for the activity.
- Promote access by providing a summary, visual, or description of the content or allowing the use of teacher/student notes.
- Provide access support by offering response/thinking stems and/or allowing the use of speech-to-text or word prediction support to answer before talking with a peer.
Think It Up!
- Have students think more deeply about the concept by responding to a Think It Up prompt as an exit ticket or journal entry:
- Predict how this concept might be assessed on a test.
- Draw a conclusion about why this concept is important.
- Encourage students to use lead4ward’s Thinking Stems (English/Spanish) to frame their responses, if needed.
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