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1. Professional Development | Grades   6 – 12  |  Strategy Guide
   Assessing Student Interests and Strengths
   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.
2. 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.
3. Professional Development | Grades   5 – 12  |  Strategy Guide
   Bringing Lessons to Life with Animoto
   Using Animoto, a free Web 2.0 tool, students can develop short digital videos that include music, photos, video clips, and text as well as share their creations electronically.
4. Professional Development | Grades   6 – 12  |  Strategy Guide
   Close Reading of Literary Texts
   This guide provides strategies for choosing text that is appropriate for close reading and to plan for instruction.
5. Professional Development | Grades   6 – 12  |  Strategy Guide
   Conducting Inner-Outer Circle Discussions
   This guide shares the steps to take to get more students talking by dividing the group into speaking and non-speaking circles.
6. Professional Development | Grades   7 – 12  |  Strategy Guide
   Consensus Decision Making
   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.
7. 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.
8. 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.
9. Professional Development | Grades   6 – 12  |  Strategy Guide
   Differentiating the Reading Experience for Students
   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.
10. Professional Development | Grades   K – 12  |  Strategy Guide
    Exit Slips
    This strategy guide introduces the concept of using Exit Slips in the classroom to help students reflect on what they have learned and express what or how they are thinking about the new information. Exit Slips easily incorporate writing into the content area classroom and require students to think critically.

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