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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.
Socratic Seminars
Grades
Grades
6 - 12
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Strategy Guide
Socratic Seminars
This strategy guide explains Socratic seminars and offers practical methods for applying the approach in your classroom to help students investigate multiple perspectives in a text.
Supporting Comprehension Strategies for English Language Learners
Grades
Grades
6 - 12
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Strategy Guide
Supporting Comprehension Strategies for English Language Learners
This Strategy Guide is for developing comprehension that incorporates the gradual release of responsibility model.
Supporting Vocabulary Acquisition for English Language Learners
Grades
Grades
6 - 12
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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.
Promoting Student Self-Assessment
Grades
Grades
6 - 12
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Strategy Guide
Promoting Student Self-Assessment
In this Strategy Guide, you'll learn about a number of specific methods that will promote self-assessment and contribute to a richer understanding of student learning.
Teaching With Multiple Modalities
Grades
Grades
6 - 12
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Strategy Guide
Teaching With Multiple Modalities
In this Strategy Guide, you'll see how one lesson utilizes tiered texts and multiple modalities in order to meet the learning style needs of students.
Assessing Student Interests and Strengths
Grades
Grades
6 - 12
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Strategy Guide
Assessing Student Interests and Strengths
In this Strategy Guide, you'll learn about a number of specific methods that can help you to gain a fuller picture of the interests of your students as well as what your students understand, know, and can demonstrate by doing.
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.
Conducting Inner-Outer Circle Discussions
Grades
Grades
6 - 12
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Strategy Guide
Conducting Inner-Outer Circle Discussions
This guide shares the steps to take to get more students talking by dividing the group into speaking and non-speaking circles.
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.
Close Reading of Literary Texts
Grades
Grades
6 - 12
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Strategy Guide
Close Reading of Literary Texts
This guide provides strategies for choosing text that is appropriate for close reading and to plan for instruction.
Making the Reading Process Visible through Performance Assessment
Grades
Grades
6 - 12
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Strategy Guide
Making the Reading Process Visible through Performance Assessment
Effective differentiation begins with purposeful assessment. In this strategy guide, you'll learn how to construct an authentic performance-based reading assessment that will give you access to students' thinking before, during, and after reading.
Promoting Student-Directed Inquiry with the I-Search Paper
Grades
Grades
8 - 12
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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.
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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