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1. Professional Development | Grades   5 – 12  |  Strategy Guide
   Brainstorming and Reviewing Using the Carousel Strategy
   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.
2. Professional Development | Grades   K – 12  |  Strategy Guide Series
   Developing Academic Vocabulary
   In this Strategy Guide Series, you'll find creative and compatible ways to build, maintain, and extend students' vocabulary across academic disciplines.
3. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Earth Verse: Using Science in Poetry
   Students shape up their reading, writing, and listening skills in this lesson by creating original diamante, acrostic, and shape poems about science.
4. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Integrating Literacy Into the Study of the Earth's Surface
   Water covers 71% of the earth's surface—does it get the instructional time it deserves in your busy curriculum? Students wade right in to the study of bodies of water as they read and discuss science trade books and work together to develop Readers Theater scripts based on selected titles.
5. Professional Development | Grades   K – 8  |  Strategy Guide
   Introducing Ideas and Vocabulary with the Concept Sort
   A Concept Sort is a vocabulary and comprehension strategy used with students to introduce new topics and/or familiarize students with new vocabulary.
6. Professional Development | Grades   5 – 12  |  Strategy Guide
   Introducing New Content with Seed Discussions
   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.
7. Parent & Afterschool Resources | Grades   K – 8  |  Activity & Project
   Let's Go On A Poetry Walk!
   The sun is shining, the birds are chirping, and you're surrounded by brilliant shades of green! Observe and collect sensory images from nature and use the sights, sounds, smells, and textures to create original nature poetry.
8. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Multimedia Responses to Content Area Topics Using Fact-"Faction"-Fiction
   Students climb into the mind of a spider in this lesson that asks them to compose a spider diary using spider facts, fiction, and "faction"—fiction that sounds like fact.
9. Classroom Resources | Grades   5 – 12  |  Printout  |  Writing Starter
   RAFT Writing Template
   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.
10. Classroom Resources | Grades   5 – 12  |  Printout  |  Graphic Organizer
    Seed Discussion 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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