Primary Purpose: Grouping and regrouping learners in preparation for moving into collaborative work.

Primary Purpose: Initiating connections between learners.

Primary purpose: Practicing metacognition and thinking and learning.

Primary Purpose: Supporting learners in making connections between background knowledge and new ideas

Primary Purpose: Supporting learners in finding meaning and constructing understanding of different text forms.

Primary purpose: Ssupporting learners in gleaning and combining key ideas into a coherent whole. 

Primary Purpose: Supporting learners in considering best-fit alternatives for resolving an issue or challenge.

Primary Purpose: Supporting learners in structured approaches to conversations between two or more people.

Primary Purpose: Supporting learning in structuring their thinking about their learning. 

Primary Purpose: Supporting learners in surfacing and grouping ideas. 

Primary Purpose: Providing supportive frameworks to surface and/or focus thinking.