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1. Professional Development | Grades   K – 3  |  Strategy Guide
   Guided Writing
   This strategy guide explains how to use small-group, guided writing instruction to teach students effective strategies and improve their ability to produce text independently.
2. Professional Development | Grades   K – 5  |  Strategy Guide
   Implementing the Writing Process
   This strategy guide explains the writing process and offers practical methods for applying it in your classroom to help students become proficient writers.
3. Professional Development | Grades   3 – 12  |  Strategy Guide
   Inquiry Charts (I-Charts)
   This guide introduces I-Charts, a strategy that enables students to generate meaningful questions about a topic and organize their writing.
4. Professional Development | Grades   K – 5  |  Strategy Guide
   Peer Review
   This strategy guide explains how you can employ peer review in your classroom, guiding students as they offer each other constructive feedback to improve their writing and communication skills.
5. Professional Development | Grades   6 – 12  |  Strategy Guide
   Power Notes
   The strategy examined in this Strategy Guide teaches students an outlining technique to help them differentiate between main ideas and details in their reading and writing.
6. Professional Development | Grades   8 – 12  |  Strategy Guide
   Promoting Student-Directed Inquiry with the I-Search Paper
   The sense of curiosity behind research writing gets lost in some school-based assignments. This Strategy Guide provides the foundation for cultivating interest and authority through I-Search writing, including publishing online.
7. Professional Development | Grades   K – 12  |  Strategy Guide
   Shared Writing
   This strategy guide explains how to use shared writing to teach students effective strategies that will improve their own independent writing ability.
8. Professional Development | Grades   6 – 12  |  Strategy Guide
   Supporting Student Comprehension in Content Area Reading
   In this strategy guide, you’ll learn a few simple, yet powerful, techniques to encourage students to use peer talk and writing to enhance their understanding of content area texts.
9. Professional Development | Grades   5 – 12  |  Strategy Guide
   Using the RAFT Writing Strategy
   This strategy guide introduces the RAFT technique and offers practical ideas for using this technique to teach students to experiment with various perspectives in their writing.
10. Professional Development | Grades   K – 12  |  Strategy Guide
    Write Alouds
    This strategy guide explains how to use write-aloud (also known as modeled writing) to teach effective writing strategies and improve students’ independent writing ability.