Social Justice: Teaching Cultural Diversity and Tolerance

These surveys ask students what they know or how they feel about specific words in the text they are reading.

A word wall is an organized display of vocabulary words drawn from the texts students are reading.

Thinking notes are text annotations (highlights, underlines or symbols made on the text or in the margins) that document student thinking during reading. Depending on how you structure the task, these notes can indicate agreement, objection, confusion or other relevant reactions to the text.

This task helps students consider if the text is a window or a mirror through practicing literacy skills and using technology.