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Making Connections
Grades
Grades
3 - 8
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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.
Introducing New Content with Seed Discussions
Grades
Grades
5 - 12
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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.
Brainstorming and Reviewing Using the Carousel Strategy
Grades
Grades
5 - 12
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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.
Using the Think-Pair-Share Technique
Grades
Grades
K - 12
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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.
Using the RAFT Writing Strategy
Grades
Grades
5 - 12
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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.
Shhh! Bear's Sleeping: Learning About Nonfiction and Fiction Using Read-Alouds
Grades
Grades
3 - 8
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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.

Persuasive Writing
Grades
Grades
K - 5
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Strategy Guide
Persuasive Writing
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.
Facilitating Participation with Silent Conversations
Grades
Grades
5 - 12
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Strategy Guide
Facilitating Participation with Silent Conversations
This guide introduces silent conversations, a collaborative learning technique that has students thinking, sharing, and reflecting about important questions—but through writing rather than talk.
Using Generative Sentences to Apply Academic Vocabulary
Grades
Grades
4 - 12
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Strategy Guide
Using Generative Sentences to Apply Academic Vocabulary
In this guide, you will learn how to use generative sentences to give students opportunities to apply their knowledge of new words in writing.
Inquiry Charts (I-Charts)
Grades
Grades
3 - 12
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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.
Question the Author (QtA)
Grades
Grades
3 - 12
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Strategy Guide
Question the Author (QtA)
In this guide, you'll be introduced to a strategy that requires students to challenge their understanding and solidify their knowledge while reading a text.
Exit Slips
Grades
Grades
K - 12
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Strategy Guide
Exit Slips
This strategy guide introduces the concept of using Exit Slips in the classroom to help students reflect on what they have learned and express what or how they are thinking about the new information. Exit Slips easily incorporate writing into the content area classroom and require students to think critically.

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