During choral reading, students read together orally. Repeated, supported reading helps students read with greater expression and read unfamiliar words with greater ease.
Choral Reading
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Readers Theatre
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1 - 5
Strategy Guide
Readers Theatre integrates oral reading, literature, and the performing arts. This strategy can entice the most reluctant and disinterested reader to become engaged in reading.
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Write Alouds
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K - 12
Strategy Guide
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.
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Shared Writing
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K - 12
Strategy Guide
This strategy guide explains how to use shared writing to teach students effective strategies that will improve their own independent writing ability.
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Making Connections
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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.
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Using the Think-Pair-Share Technique
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K - 12
Strategy Guide
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.
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Using the Jigsaw Cooperative Learning Technique
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3 - 8
Strategy Guide
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.
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Implementing the Writing Process
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K - 5
Strategy Guide
This strategy guide explains the writing process and offers practical methods for applying it in your classroom to help students become proficient writers.
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Peer Review
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K - 5
Strategy Guide
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.
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Persuasive Writing
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K - 5
Strategy Guide
This strategy guide focuses on persuasive writing and offers specific methods on how you can help your students use it to improve their critical writing and thinking skills.
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Developing Academic Vocabulary
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K - 12
Strategy Guide Series
In this Strategy Guide Series, you'll find creative and compatible ways to build, maintain, and extend students' vocabulary across academic disciplines.
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Inquiry-Based Learning
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K - 12
Strategy Guide Series
In this series of Strategy Guides, you'll learn about different methods and activities to encourage inquiry-based learning in your classroom.
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Reading in the Content Areas
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K - 12
Strategy Guide Series
In this Strategy Guide Series, you'll get information and ideas about teaching reading in the different content areas.
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Teaching Literacy Across the Gradual Release of Responsibility
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K - 12
Strategy Guide Series
This series of strategy guides considers the ways that reading instruction in various contexts works together to help students develop independence as readers. Each strategy guide presents a strategy or instructional context in isolation, but this series of strategy guides is designed to support teachers as they explore the ways reading aloud, shared reading, guided reading, and independent reading all work together.
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Performing Literature to Promote Fluency and Comprehension
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1 - 5
Strategy Guide Series
This study guide outlines three reading methods--Readers Theatre, choral reading, and performing poetry-- that can be used to promote fluency and comprehension.
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Teaching Writing
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K - 5
Strategy Guide Series
This strategy guide series identifies, defines, and provides examples of effective writing strategies and offers a list of resources related to each strategy.
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Using Concept Circles to Develop Academic Vocabulary
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3 - 12
Strategy Guide
In this guide, you will learn how to use the Concept Circles strategy to support vocabulary development and comprehension of complex text.
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Using Word Walls to Develop and Maintain Academic Vocabulary
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K - 12
Strategy Guide
In this guide, you will learn how to use Word Walls to support vocabulary development and retention.
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Using Disciplinary Facets to Deepen Academic Vocabulary Knowledge
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4 - 12
Strategy Guide
In this guide, you will learn how to use the disciplinary facets strategy to support vocabulary development across contexts and academic disciplines.
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Using Generative Sentences to Apply Academic Vocabulary
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4 - 12
Strategy Guide
In this guide, you will learn how to use generative sentences to give students opportunities to apply their knowledge of new words in writing.