In this Strategy Guide, you'll learn approaches that can help you differentiate the reading experience for students depending on their age, interests, and ability.
Differentiating the Reading Experience for Students
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Promoting Student Self-Assessment
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6 - 12
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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.
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Teaching With Multiple Modalities
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6 - 12
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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.
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Assessing Student Interests and Strengths
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6 - 12
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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.
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Reading Online
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6 - 12
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In this Strategy Guide you will learn how online reading differs from offline reading and strategies to build and reinforce the skills that online reading requires.
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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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Zora Neale Hurston in the Classroom: "With a Harp and a Sword in My Hands"
8 - 12
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The book offers a practical approach to Hurston using a range of student-centered activities for teaching Hurston's nonfiction, short stories, and the print and film versions of Their Eyes Were Watching God.
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Sherman Alexie in the Classroom: "This is not a silent movie. Our voices will save our lives."
8 - 12
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Provides high school teachers with teaching strategies, classroom activities, and student samples for teaching the works of Sherman Alexie.
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Langston Hughes in the Classroom: "Do Nothin' till You Hear from Me"
8 - 12
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Carmaletta M. Williams provides high school teachers with background on Hughes and the Harlem Renaissance as well as help in teaching Hughes's poetry, short stories, novels, and autobiography.
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Judith Ortiz Cofer in the Classroom: A Woman in Front of the Sun
8 - 12
Professional Library
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Carol Jago offers ways to teach the works of Judith Ortiz Cofer in the high school English classroom.
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Amy Tan in the Classroom: "The art of invisible strength"
8 - 12
Professional Library
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Offers high school teachers an activity-based approach to teaching the works of Amy Tan, especially The Joy Luck Club and The Opposite of Fate.
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Alice Walker in the Classroom: "Living by the Word"
8 - 12
Professional Library
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Carol Jago offers readers a handy guide for bringing this celebrated author's work into the classroom, including biographical information, ideas for literature circles using Walker's short stories, sample writing lessons using Walker's poems, suggestions for teaching The Color Purple, and a wealth of resources for further investigation of Alice Walker and her work.
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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
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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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ICED: The Key to Elaboration
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9 - 12
Strategy Guide
Most students struggle when adding detail to their body paragraphs. This guide serves as a means of instruction and provides models for the students to master development.