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1. Professional Development | Grades   6 – 12  |  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.
2. Professional Development | Grades   6 – 12  |  Strategy Guide
   Developing Persuasive Writing Strategies
   This strategy guide describes the techniques used in effective persuasive writing and shares activities you can use to help students understand and use persuasion in their writing and critical thinking.
3. Professional Development | Grades   9 – 12  |  Strategy Guide
   ICED: The Key to Elaboration
   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.
4. Professional Development | Grades   K – 12  |  Strategy Guide
   Shared Writing
   This strategy guide explains how to use shared writing to teach students effective strategies that will improve their own independent writing ability.
5. Professional Development | Grades   5 – 12  |  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.
6. Professional Development | Grades   K – 12  |  Strategy Guide
   Write Alouds
   This strategy guide explains how to use write-aloud (also known as modeled writing) to teach effective writing strategies and improve students' independent writing ability.