Tap into teen and preteen readers' interest in adolescent-mentor relationships with these recommendations!
Life's Journeys: Help Along the Way
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Group and Self-Evaluation
6 - 12
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Students use this printout to evaluate both their own performance in a group as well as the actions of their group members.
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Common Content Area Roots and Affixes
5 - 12
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| Informational Sheet
This printout offers 50 or so common roots, prefixes, and affixes that give students access to hundreds of key concepts across the content areas.
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Venn Diagram, 3 Circles
K - 12
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| Graphic Organizer
Students use this graphic organizer to describe similarities and differences between three objects or ideas.
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I-Search Chart
9 - 12
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| Graphic Organizer
As part of an I-Search writing process, this handout facilitates the formation of meaningful questions and subquestions for student inquiry.
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I-Search Process Reflection Chart
9 - 12
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| Graphic Organizer
This chart asks students to consider their challenges and successes across the span of the research process, from question formulation to the final write-up.
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I-Chart
3 - 12
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| Graphic Organizer
This printout assists students with generating meaningful questions about a topic and organizing their writing by using a structured guide while researching.
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Power Notes
6 - 12
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| Writing Starter
This printout teaches students a method for organizing their thoughts that involves assigning "powers" to different ideas. This outlining technique helps students differentiate between main ideas and supporting details.
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Exit Slips
K - 12
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This printout provides prompts that help students reflect on and process new information and think critically, and offers teachers the opportunity to differentiate upcoming instruction based on these reflections.
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Oral Presentation Rubric
3 - 12
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This rubric is designed to be used for any oral presentation. Students are scored in three categories—delivery, content, and audience awareness.
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Readers Theatre Rubric
3 - 12
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This rubric is designed to be used for any Readers Theatre performance. Students are scored both individually in the areas of delivery and cooperation and as a group in the area of active, on-task participation.
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RAFT Writing Template
5 - 12
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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
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| 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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Sequence of Events Chart
3 - 12
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| Graphic Organizer
This graphic organizer helps students see the sequential or cause-effect relationships between multiple events in a text.
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Anticipation Guide
3 - 12
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Help establish a purpose for reading—and generate post-reading reflection and discussion—with this guide.
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Podcasts: The Nuts and Bolts of Creating Podcasts
3 - 12
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| Informational Sheet
Use this helpful tool to integrate podcasts into your classroom or to help your students create their own podcasts with audio and images.
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Persuasion Map
3 - 12
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| Graphic Organizer
Use this graphic organizer to develop a persuasive stance for an essay, speech, poster, or any type of assignment that incorporates persuasion.
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Essay Rubric
6 - 12
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This rubric delineates specific expectations about an essay assignment to students and provides a means of assessing completed student essays.
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Persuasion Rubric
6 - 12
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| Assessment Tool
Use this rubric to assess the effectiveness of a student's essay, speech, poster, or any type of assignment that incorporates persuasion.
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PowerPoint Tool Tips
3 - 12
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| Informational Sheet
Combining words, images, graphics, and multimedia is simple with PowerPoint software. Students learn the basics of slide creation.