As part of an I-Search writing process, this handout facilitates the formation of meaningful questions and subquestions for student inquiry.
I-Search Chart
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I-Search Process Reflection Chart
9 - 12
Printout
| 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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Connection Web
3 - 8
Printout
| Graphic Organizer
Students use this printout to expand on connections they have made to a text and use those details to write essays or create projects about the text.
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Double-Entry Journal
3 - 8
Printout
| Graphic Organizer
This printout helps students record ideas and situations from texts in one column, and their reactions in the second, thus making a connection between the text and themselves, another text, or the world.
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RAFT Writing Template
5 - 12
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| 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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Anticipation Guide
3 - 12
Printout
| Assessment Tool
Help establish a purpose for reading—and generate post-reading reflection and discussion—with this guide.
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Making Connections
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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Facilitating Participation with Silent Conversations
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5 - 12
Strategy Guide
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
Strategy Guide
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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Using Generative Sentences to Apply Academic Vocabulary
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4 - 12
Strategy Guide
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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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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Promoting Student-Directed Inquiry with the I-Search Paper
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8 - 12
Strategy Guide
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.
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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.