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For this week's Activity of the Week, we would like to introduce the K-8 Language and Culture Teaching Kit that was created by Center for Educational Resources and Culture, Language, and Literacy (CERCLL). The kit can be accessed at http://www.scribd.com/doc/52862363/K-8-Language-and-Culture-Classroom-Teaching-Kit?secret_password=1jmjqnt85qo8bksf99nj.

This teaching kit involves many strategies for responding to literature that can be easily adapted to multiple proficiency levels and text types. Here is a brief preview for two of the activities:

*Cultural X-Rays: This activity involves students interpreting cultural norms from texts and documenting those interpretations in a visual format.

*Save The Last Word for Me: This activity teaches students how to think when reading a text. When engaging with the text, students pick a quote that stands out for some reason, be it the text's relevance to the story or the cognitive dissonance that it inspires within the student. Student learning groups share the quotes that they picked and their reasoning for their selections.

If you want some other ideas for strategies to help students to engage with text, please check out Games2Teach (https://games2teach.uoregon.edu), a website designed in cooperation between CERCLL and CASLS to connect teachers with curricular resources related to the successful incorporation of games in the classroom.