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1. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Recurring Lesson
   Active Reading through Self-Assessment: The Student-Made Quiz
   This recurring lesson encourages students to comprehend their reading through inquiry and collaboration. They choose important quotations from the text and work in groups to formulate "quiz" questions that their peers will answer.
2. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Recurring Lesson
   Creating an Online Community Through Electronic Portfolios
   Students publish their work in an electronic portfolio, which enables them to respond to each other's content online.
3. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Recurring Lesson
   Focus on First Lines: Increasing Comprehension through Prediction Strategies
   Students examine opening sentences of texts they will read during a unit or course and make predictions. They return to their predictions throughout the course as they read the texts.
4. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Recurring Lesson
   Show-Me Sentences
   This lesson teaches students how to revise dull "telling" sentences into vivid, descriptive "showing" sentences.
5. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Recurring Lesson
   Tell Me Your Story: Video-Inspired Vocabulary Writing
   Students watch a sample of artistic video clips online and respond through creative writing while using the vocabulary words they are currently studying.
6. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Recurring Lesson
   Weekly Writer's Blogs: Building a Reflective Community of Support
   Students explore the conventions of blog writing while using it to self-reflect on their writing and communicate with classmates about each other's reflections.