This printout offers 50 or so common roots, prefixes, and affixes that give students access to hundreds of key concepts across the content areas.
Common Content Area Roots and Affixes
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RAFT Writing Template
5 - 12
Printout
| Writing Starter
Students can utilize this printout to organize their writing as they learn to use the RAFT strategy. This printout enables students to clearly define their role, audience, format, and topic for writing.
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Seed Discussion Organizer
5 - 12
Printout
| Graphic Organizer
Students can utilize this printout to organize their thoughts as a new concept or content is introduced through a Seed Discussion. This printout readies students to acquire new knowledge by organizing what they know and what they're prepared to learn.
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Introducing New Content with Seed Discussions
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5 - 12
Strategy Guide
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.
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Brainstorming and Reviewing Using the Carousel Strategy
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5 - 12
Strategy Guide
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.
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Preparing Students for Success with Reading in the Content Areas
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6 - 12
Strategy Guide
In this strategy guide, you'll learn how to determine the level and type of support you need to provide students based on careful preparation as a content area expert.
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Supporting Comprehension Strategies for English Language Learners
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6 - 12
Strategy Guide
This Strategy Guide is for developing comprehension that incorporates the gradual release of responsibility model.
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Supporting Vocabulary Acquisition for English Language Learners
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6 - 12
Strategy Guide
This Strategy Guide introduces strategies teachers can use for ELL vocabulary instruction in their English and content area classrooms.
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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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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.
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Literary Terms: A Practical Glossary
9 - 12
Professional Library
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Literary Terms: A Practical Glossary provides up-to-date definitions, drawing on recent developments in literary theory and emphasizing the role of reading practices in the reproduction of literary meanings. Unlike other glossaries, it includes brief activities to help students develop a working knowledge of the concepts.
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Building Literacy Connections with Graphic Novels: Page by Page, Panel by Panel
7 - 12
Professional Library
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This collection of essays by classroom teachers demonstrates how to pair graphic novels with classic literature (including both canonical and YA lit).
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Making It Visual for ELL Students: Teaching History Using Maus
9 - 12
Lesson Plan
| Unit
Spark the engagement of English-language learners or reluctant readers with the graphic novel Maus. The visual information provided by the genre serves as a support for reading and critical engagement.
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Pictures Tell the Story: Improving Comprehension With Persepolis
9 - 12
Lesson Plan
| Standard Lesson
Students get the big picture of the Middle East when they read and analyze Marjane Satrapi's graphic novel Persepolis.
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Exploring Cross-Age Tutoring Activities With Lewis and Clark
9 - 12
Lesson Plan
| Standard Lesson
Interaction and adventure draws high school and elementary school students together as they analyze stories about the Lewis and Clark expedition.
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What Did They Say? Dialect in The Color Purple
9 - 12
Lesson Plan
Y'all set down a spell and learn ‘bout dialects!" In other words, your students will use The Color Purple to explore dialect and how it reveals information about the characters.