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1. Professional Development | Grades   5 – 12  |  Strategy Guide
   Brainstorming and Reviewing Using the Carousel Strategy
   This strategy guide introduces Carousel Brainstorming, also known as Rotating Review, and offers suggestions to implement this technique in your classroom for brainstorming about new topics or reviewing learned information.
2. Professional Development | Grades   K – 8  |  Strategy Guide
   Introducing Ideas and Vocabulary with the Concept Sort
   A Concept Sort is a vocabulary and comprehension strategy used with students to introduce new topics and/or familiarize students with new vocabulary.
3. Professional Development | Grades   5 – 12  |  Strategy Guide
   Introducing New Content with Seed Discussions
   In this strategy guide, you’ll learn how to elicit ideas and conversation about new concepts or content by effectively holding a Seed Discussion in your classroom.
4. Professional Development | Grades   3 – 8  |  Strategy Guide
   Making Connections
   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.
5. Professional Development | Grades   6 – 12  |  Strategy Guide
   Preparing Students for Success with Reading in the Content Areas
   In this strategy guide, you’ll learn how to determine the level and type of support you need to provide students based on careful preparation as a content area expert.
6. Professional Development | 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.
7. Professional Development | Grades   6 – 12  |  Strategy Guide
   Supporting Vocabulary Acquisition for English Language Learners
   This Strategy Guide introduces strategies teachers can use for ELL vocabulary instruction in their English and content area classrooms.
8. Professional Development | Grades   K – 6  |  Strategy Guide
   Using Paired Reading to Increase Fluency and Peer Cooperation
   In this strategy, students read aloud to each other, pairing more fluent readers with less fluent readers. This strategy can also be used to pair older students with younger students to create “reading buddies.”