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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   3 – 8  |  Professional Library  |  Book
   Happily Ever After: Sharing Folk Literature With Elementary and Middle School Students
   This unique text provides background about folk literature and how to use this rich genre in your classroom.
3. Professional Development | Grades   3 – 8  |  Strategy Guide
   Making Connections
   In this strategy guide, you'll learn to model how students can make three different kinds of connections (text-to-text, text-to-self, text-to-world). Students then use this knowledge to find their own personal connections to a text.
4. Professional Development | Grades   6 – 12  |  Strategy Guide
   Socratic Seminars
   This strategy guide explains Socratic seminars and offers practical methods for applying the approach in your classroom to help students investigate multiple perspectives in a text.
5. Professional Development | Grades   6 – 12  |  Online Professional Development  |  Web Seminar
   Summarization in any Subject
   Focusing on practical applications, this web seminar by Rick Wormelli presents the specific steps of summarization, its impact on learning, and dozens of summarization techniques for all subject areas, not just English.