This Strategy Guide describes the strategies involved in ensuring that students understand how to be safe when they participate in online discussion and join social networks.
Online Safety
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Supporting Comprehension Strategies for English Language Learners
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6 - 12
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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
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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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Differentiating the Reading Experience for Students
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6 - 12
Strategy Guide
In this Strategy Guide, you'll learn approaches that can help you differentiate the reading experience for students depending on their age, interests, and ability.
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Promoting Student Self-Assessment
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6 - 12
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In this Strategy Guide, you'll learn about a number of specific methods that will promote self-assessment and contribute to a richer understanding of student learning.
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Teaching With Multiple Modalities
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6 - 12
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In this Strategy Guide, you'll see how one lesson utilizes tiered texts and multiple modalities in order to meet the learning style needs of students.
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Assessing Student Interests and Strengths
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6 - 12
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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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Reading Online
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6 - 12
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In this Strategy Guide you will learn how online reading differs from offline reading and strategies to build and reinforce the skills that online reading requires.
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Facilitating Participation with Silent Conversations
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5 - 12
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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
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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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The Art of the Doodle: Writing with Imagination
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5 - 12
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Use independent, imaginative artwork and varied writing prompts to assess understanding of a given topic for a student body with differentiated needs.
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Using Concept Circles to Develop Academic Vocabulary
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3 - 12
Strategy Guide
In this guide, you will learn how to use the Concept Circles strategy to support vocabulary development and comprehension of complex text.
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Using Word Walls to Develop and Maintain Academic Vocabulary
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K - 12
Strategy Guide
In this guide, you will learn how to use Word Walls to support vocabulary development and retention.
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Using Disciplinary Facets to Deepen Academic Vocabulary Knowledge
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4 - 12
Strategy Guide
In this guide, you will learn how to use the disciplinary facets strategy to support vocabulary development across contexts and academic disciplines.
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Using Generative Sentences to Apply Academic Vocabulary
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4 - 12
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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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ICED: The Key to Elaboration
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9 - 12
Strategy Guide
Most students struggle when adding detail to their body paragraphs. This guide serves as a means of instruction and provides models for the students to master development.
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Consensus Decision Making
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7 - 12
Strategy Guide
This strategy guide introduces Consensus Decision Making, a method for facilitating and engaging students in a critical discussion of the central ideas of a text.
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Developing Evidence-Based Arguments from Texts
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6 - 12
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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.
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Depend on the Text! How to Create Text-Dependent Questions
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1 - 3
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Teachers need to create text-dependent questions to elicit close reading. When answering these questions, students learn to reread and think deeply about the text.
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Promote Deep Thinking! How to Choose a Complex Text
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1 - 3
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Complex texts promote deep thinking and critical analysis by students. Through close reading of a complex text, students' independent reading abilities also increase.