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IRA Annual Convention
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Grades 6 – 12 | Professional Library
Reading & Writing & Teens: A Parent’s Guide to Adolescent Literacy
Offering advice from a host of experts in adolescent literacy, this book helps answer real questions from parents across the country about how to best support their teens as readers and writers.
Grades K – 12 | Strategy Guide
Shared Reading Opportunities for Direct Literacy Instruction
Grades K – 12 | Meeting & Event
Grades 6 – 12 | Strategy Guide
Supporting Comprehension Strategies for English Language Learners
Grades K – 12 | Strategy Guide
Shared Reading Opportunities for Direct Literacy Instruction
Shared reading affords teachers the opportunity to teach reading strategies in larger groups. The shared text and teacher support offer unique opportunities for instruction.
Grades K – 12 | Meeting & Event
Register now for the 2012 Literacies for All Summer Institute, “Reclaiming Joy in Teaching, Learning, and Research,” July 19-21 in St. Louis, Missouri.
Grades 6 – 12 | Strategy Guide
Supporting Comprehension Strategies for English Language Learners
This Strategy Guide is for developing comprehension that incorporates the gradual release of responsibility model.
Browse Professional Development Resources
Grades K – 12 | Strategy Guide
Supporting Students As They Read Independently
This guide includes basic theory and practice for supporting students reading independently, which is the last instructional context along the gradual release of responsibility.
Grades 3 – 8 | Strategy Guide
Using the Jigsaw Cooperative Learning Technique
In this strategy guide, you will learn how to organize students and texts to allow for learning that meets the diverse needs of students but keeps student groups flexible.
Grades 3 – 8 | Strategy Guide
In this strategy guide, you’ll learn to model how students can make three different kinds of connections (text-to-text, text-to-self, text-to-world). Students then use this knowledge to find their own personal connections to a text.
Grades 3 – 12 | Strategy Guide
Using Glogster to Support Multimodal Literacy
Glogster, a Web 2.0 tool, supports development of students’ multimodal literacy skills. This guide outlines techniques for critical evaluation and creation of multimodal texts.
Grades K – 12 | Strategy Guide
Using the Think-Pair-Share Technique
In this strategy guide, you will learn how to organize students and classroom topics to encourage a high degree of classroom participation and assist students in developing a conceptual understanding of a topic through the use of the Think-Pair-Share technique.
