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1. Professional Development | Grades   3 – 8  |  Professional Library  |  Journal
   Conversation: The Comprehension Connection
   Conversation provides opportunities for students to practice and use cognitive strategies, and is critical for developing comprehension.
2. Professional Development | Grades   6 – 12  |  Professional Library  |  Book
   Developing Academic Thinking Skills in Grades 6-12: A Handbook of Multiple Intelligence Activities
   These skill-based activities will help students develop the academic thinking skills and language to understand challenging content concepts.
3. Professional Development | Grades   6 – 12  |  Professional Library  |  Journal
   Engaging the Disengaged: Using Learning Clubs to Motivate Struggling Adolescent Readers and Writers
   This article describes the use of learning clubs to motivate struggling students to engage in literacy events and foster literacy development.
4. Professional Development | Grades   6 – 12  |  Professional Library  |  Journal
   Flip-A-Chip to Build Vocabulary
   This word-game strategy builds vocabulary and comprehension while motivating students.
5. Professional Development | Grades   3 – 8  |  Professional Library  |  Book
   Guided Comprehension in Grades 3-8
   This book has everything you need to use the Guided Comprehension Model effectively with students in in upper elementary and middle school.
6. Professional Development | Grades   6 – 12  |  Professional Library  |  Journal
   "Help! What Is Wrong With These Literature Circles and How Can We Fix Them?"
   The authors of this article offer some suggestions for how to improve literature circle discussions.
7. Professional Development | Grades   3 – 8  |  Professional Library  |  Journal
   Overlapping Vocabulary and Comprehension: Context Clues Complement Semantic Gradients
   This teaching technique combines two strategies, context clues and semantic gradients, to help students make vocabulary-to-comprehension connections.
8. Professional Development | Grades   3 – 12  |  Professional Library  |  Journal
   Paraphrasing: An Effective Comprehension Strategy
   In this article, the author explains what paraphrasing is and how it can increase student's comprehension.
9. Professional Development | Grades   3 – 12  |  Professional Library  |  Journal
   Ten Important Words Plus: A Strategy for Building Word Knowledge
   The strategy presented in this article can be used to build and enrich students' understanding of words in any subject area.
10. Professional Development | Grades   4 – 12  |  Professional Library  |  Book
    Text Complexity: Raising Rigor in Reading
    Selecting appropriate reading material for students is hard. For decades, teachers have known that quality instruction requires a careful matching of materials to students. The goal is to select materials that are neither too difficult nor too easy for students--a phenomenon sometimes called the Goldilocks Rule.

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