In this Strategy Guide Series, you'll find creative and compatible ways to build, maintain, and extend students' vocabulary across academic disciplines.
Developing Academic Vocabulary
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Evidence-based Discussions
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6 - 12
Strategy Guide Series
These Strategy Guides offer varied ways to support students as they develop the skills and habits necessary to participate in evidence-based conversations.
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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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Differentiating Instruction
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6 - 12
Strategy Guide Series
In this Strategy Guide series, you'll learn different methods to use in the classroom to meet the needs of all students.
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Teaching with Technology
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6 - 12
Strategy Guide Series
In this strategy guide series, you will learn about reading online, blogs, podcasts, and online safety.
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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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Teaching Reading with YA Literature: Complex Texts, Complex Lives
6 - 12
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This book is designed to help teachers develop their own version of YA pedagogy and a vision for teaching YA lit in the middle and secondary classroom.
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Facilitating Participation with Silent Conversations
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5 - 12
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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.
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Conducting Inner-Outer Circle Discussions
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6 - 12
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This guide shares the steps to take to get more students talking by dividing the group into speaking and non-speaking circles.
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The Art of the Doodle: Writing with Imagination
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5 - 12
Strategy Guide
Use independent, imaginative artwork and varied writing prompts to assess understanding of a given topic for a student body with differentiated needs.
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Using Concept Circles to Develop Academic Vocabulary
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3 - 12
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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
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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
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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
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In this guide, you will learn how to use generative sentences to give students opportunities to apply their knowledge of new words in writing.
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Developing Evidence-Based Arguments from Texts
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6 - 12
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This strategy guide clarifies the difference between persuasion and argumentation, stressing the connection between close reading of text to gather evidence and formation of a strong argumentative claim about text.
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Close Reading of Literary Texts
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6 - 12
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This guide provides strategies for choosing text that is appropriate for close reading and to plan for instruction.
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Reading on the Go
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5 - 12
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In this Strategy Guide, learn how to prepare yourself and your students for reading and note-taking in mobile environments.
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Tracking and Supporting Student Learning with Kidwatching
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K - 8
Strategy Guide
In this strategy guide, you'll learn how to use kidwatching to track and support student learning. Teachers observe and take notes on students' understanding of skills and concepts and then use the observations to determine effective strategies for future instruction.
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Developing Persuasive Writing Strategies
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6 - 12
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This strategy guide describes the techniques used in effective persuasive writing and shares activities you can use to help students understand and use persuasion in their writing and critical thinking.