Scenario Response 10

10 High Quality Language Practices

1) Cooperative Learning

2) student choice boards

3) Writer's Workshop

4) Variety of graphic organizers

5)  vocabulary centers

6) opportunity for independent skill practice

7) teacher modeling and guided reading opportunities

8) data driven instruction (I-Ready)

9) silent sustained reading

10) differentiated instruction 

Criteria for Selection

1) Student Engagement

2) Develops Rigor

3) Develops Collaboration

**When instruction and decisions are based on data (ie. I-Ready), one can track whether or not instruction is effective. You can see whether what a teacher is doing is effective or not.