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Using the RAFT Writing Strategy
Grades
Grades
5 - 12
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Strategy Guide
Using the RAFT Writing Strategy
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.
Supporting Student Comprehension in Content Area Reading
Grades
Grades
6 - 12
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Strategy Guide
Supporting Student Comprehension in Content Area Reading
In this strategy guide, you'll learn a few simple, yet powerful, techniques to encourage students to use peer talk and writing to enhance their understanding of content area texts.
Facilitating Participation with Silent Conversations
Grades
Grades
5 - 12
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Strategy Guide
Facilitating Participation with Silent Conversations
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.
The Art of the Doodle: Writing with Imagination
Grades
Grades
5 - 12
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Strategy Guide
The Art of the Doodle: Writing with Imagination
Use independent, imaginative artwork and varied writing prompts to assess understanding of a given topic for a student body with differentiated needs.
Developing Evidence-Based Arguments from Texts
Grades
Grades
6 - 12
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Strategy Guide
Developing Evidence-Based Arguments from Texts

This strategy guide clarifies the difference between persuasion and argumentation, stressing the connection between close reading of text to gather evidence and formation of a strong argumentative claim about text.

Promoting Student-Directed Inquiry with the I-Search Paper
Grades
Grades
8 - 12
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Strategy Guide
Promoting Student-Directed Inquiry with the I-Search Paper
The sense of curiosity behind research writing gets lost in some school-based assignments. This Strategy Guide provides the foundation for cultivating interest and authority through I-Search writing, including publishing online.
Inquiry Charts (I-Charts)
Grades
Grades
3 - 12
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Strategy Guide
Inquiry Charts (I-Charts)
This guide introduces I-Charts, a strategy that enables students to generate meaningful questions about a topic and organize their writing.
Power Notes
Grades
Grades
6 - 12
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Strategy Guide
Power Notes
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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