This guide provides strategies for choosing text that is appropriate for close reading and to plan for instruction.
Close Reading of Literary Texts
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Reading on the Go
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5 - 12
Strategy Guide
In this Strategy Guide, learn how to prepare yourself and your students for reading and note-taking in mobile environments.
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Get Close to Think Deeply: Creating Primary-Level Close Readings
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1 - 3
Strategy Guide
Close readings allow primary students to engage with complex texts. Through repeated reading, students build a deep understanding of the text and critical thinking skills.
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Making the Reading Process Visible through Performance Assessment
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6 - 12
Strategy Guide
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.
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Using Partner Talk to Strengthen Student Collaboration and Understanding
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K - 8
Strategy Guide
In this strategy guide, you'll learn about Partner Talk—a way to provide students with another learning opportunity to make learning their own through collaboration and discussion.
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Inquiry Charts (I-Charts)
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3 - 12
Strategy Guide
This guide introduces I-Charts, a strategy that enables students to generate meaningful questions about a topic and organize their writing.
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Question the Author (QtA)
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3 - 12
Strategy Guide
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.
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Exit Slips
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K - 12
Strategy Guide
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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Power Notes
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6 - 12
Strategy Guide
The strategy examined in this Strategy Guide teaches students an outlining technique to help them differentiate between main ideas and details in their reading and writing.
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Literary Terms: A Practical Glossary
9 - 12
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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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Nikki Giovanni in the Classroom: "The same ol' danger but a brand new pleasure"
9 - 12
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The first volume in the NCTE High School Literature Series, this small, practical book features primary source materials including many of Giovanni's poems reprinted in full, easily adaptable lessons and activities, and a resource section for students and teachers wishing to study Giovanni further.
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New Visions for Linking Literature and Mathematics
K - 6
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David and Phyllis Whitin offer K–6 teachers a wealth of ideas for integrating literature and mathematics.
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Raymond Carver in the Classroom: "A Small, Good Thing"
9 - 12
Professional Library
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Rubenstein offers specific, classroom-tested strategies for teaching Raymond Carver's short stories and poems in the high school English classroom.
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Go Public!: Encouraging Student Writers to Publish
6 - 12
Professional Library
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Intended for middle and high school teachers, Go Public! offers specific writing ideas and classroom activities to help students develop the confidence and ability to publish in a wide market.
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Genre Theory: Teaching, Writing, and Being
9 - 12
Professional Library
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Dean synthesizes theory and research about genres and provides secondary-level teachers with practical classroom applications.
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Preventing Plagiarism: Tips and Techniques
9 - 12
Professional Library
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DeSena offers a practical guide on how high school and college teachers can structure assignments and guide students so that students don't plagiarize.
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Language Learners in the English Classroom
7 - 12
Professional Library
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This book provides practical, research-based strategies that can help secondary-level English language learners meet the challenges of both language and content learning.
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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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Engaging Grammar: Practical Advice for Real Classrooms
7 - 12
Professional Library
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Amy Benjamin challenges the idea of "skill and drill" grammar instruction, and Tom Oliva provides a teacher's journal chronicling how the concepts in this book can work in a real classroom.
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Wondrous Words: Writers and Writing in the Elementary Classroom
K - 6
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Katie Wood Ray explains in practical terms the theoretical underpinnings of how elementary and middle school students learn to write from their reading.