5 Ways to Use Gallery Walks

Gallery walks are one of my favorite activities to use in my classroom. There are so many ways to use gallery walks in class! I love how they include movement, and can be a sneaky way to get in a lot of reading practice. I try and include a gallery walk at least once a chapter.

Are you unfamiliar with gallery walks? Check out my post here for more information on what they are and how to get started!

Ways to Use Gallery Walks

1. Put a select few of the readings at a station and use them to practice reading in a station or center rotation.
   
2. Print and add to your classroom library for free voluntary reading!
   
3. Pull out one of the readings and use it for warm up. Create comprehension questions, or have students translate the paragraph.
   
4. Have students do a horizontal translation with a paragraph. They read the paragraph and then re-write it from another perspective – he instead of I, or we instead of they!
   
5. Use one of the readings as a mentor text. Students then write their own version about themselves or their lives!

There are so many ways you could use the readings that go with a Gallery Walk! Any of these reading activities could be used with any of the short readings to get more mileage out of them!

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How do you use gallery walks in your classroom? Drop a comment below and let me know what ideas you have!