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attitudes about those questions may have changed. They also discuss their
collaborative efforts, discussing what went well and what could have been improved.
Self-evaluation is a key element of these activities because it enables students to
better understand their own strengths and opportunities for growth.
Key Elements of Project Instruction
Literacy Connection Activities
Most days of instruction within The Project Experience Teacher Guides include a
Literacy Connection activity. These brief mini-lessons are titled according to their
domain (e.g., Reading Connection, Writing Connection, Listening and Speaking
Connection, Language Connection), and they provide explicit teaching for skills and
concepts that apply to that day in the project. For example, a day within the Research
section of a project may include a Reading Connection activity on evaluating the
content of a website, or a day within the Write section may include a Writing
Connection activity on organizing ideas.
Writing Frames
To aid struggling readers and writers with their
assignments, each Project Experience Teacher Guide
features one or more Writing Frames. These resources
provide students with the key structural language for a
piece of writing. Students use these frames as they
write, but they will write the entire piece independently,
adding the language related to the specific content of
their project. Most projects include one writing frame for
shorter individual writing and another for a team-based
writing project. Exemplars of each project’s writing
frames are provided in FLEXWorks, along with
Assessment Guides (rubrics) for assessment.
English Learner Tips
English Learner tips on the daily lesson pages provide point-of-use support for English
Learners’ success in The Project Experience. Tips are designed to provide additional
strategies and instruction for students. Additional English Learner strategies are
available in Differentiated Instruction Resources.
Foldables®
Developed by program author Dinah Zike, Foldables® are
three-dimensional graphic organizers that support students learning
to follow simple multi-step instructions and that make information
both visual and kinesthetic. Foldables® offer students strategies for