Chapter notes guides
The curriculum I'm using (McGraw-Hill's Puntos de Partida) hinges upon students reading the textbook. At first I cringed at this because I've heard that students just don't read the textbook. As a way to "encourage" students to read I went through and created what I call my chapter notes guides. For each chapter there's a vocab notes guide and a grammar notes guide. They're nothing fancy but they are intended to give students an active activity (writing) as they are doing a passive activity (reading). These are in the modules section of my Canvas class. The module says Ch ___ Getting Started and in the module there are 4 items: the vocab notes guide, the grammar notes guide and the completed notes guides of each. In my online sections I tell them to print and use these as they read. Through student feedback I see a correlation between students understanding what they're reading and filling out the notes guides. I do...