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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Podcasts: The Nuts and Bolts of Creating Podcasts
3 - 12
Printout
| 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
Printout
| 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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Alphabet Chart
K - 1
Printout
| Graphic Organizer
This alphabet chart has many possibilities for helping your students learn and review their letters, sounds, phonemes, and word formations.
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Making Connections
Grades
3 - 8
Strategy Guide
In this strategy guide, you'll learn to model how students can make three different kinds of connections (text-to-text, text-to-self, text-to-world). Students then use this knowledge to find their own personal connections to a text.
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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
Grades
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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Using the Think-Pair-Share Technique
Grades
K - 12
Strategy Guide
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.
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Using the RAFT Writing Strategy
Grades
5 - 12
Strategy Guide
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.
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Socratic Seminars
Grades
6 - 12
Strategy Guide
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.
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Using the Jigsaw Cooperative Learning Technique
Grades
3 - 8
Strategy Guide
In this strategy guide, you will learn how to organize students and texts to allow for learning that meets the diverse needs of students but keeps student groups flexible.
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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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Peer Review
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K - 5
Strategy Guide
This strategy guide explains how you can employ peer review in your classroom, guiding students as they offer each other constructive feedback to improve their writing and communication skills.
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Persuasive Writing
Grades
K - 5
Strategy Guide
This strategy guide focuses on persuasive writing and offers specific methods on how you can help your students use it to improve their critical writing and thinking skills.
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Supporting Comprehension Strategies for English Language Learners
Grades
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
Grades
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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Assessing Student Interests and Strengths
Grades
6 - 12
Strategy Guide
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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Developing Academic Vocabulary
Grades
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.