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11. Professional Development | Grades   5 – 12  |  Strategy Guide
    Introducing New Content with Seed Discussions
    In this strategy guide, you'll learn how to elicit ideas and conversation about new concepts or content by effectively holding a Seed Discussion in your classroom.
12. 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.
13. Professional Development | Grades   6 – 12  |  Strategy Guide
    Making the Reading Process Visible through Performance Assessment
    Effective differentiation begins with purposeful assessment. In this strategy guide, you'll learn how to construct an authentic performance-based reading assessment that will give you access to students' thinking before, during, and after reading.
14. Professional Development | Grades   K – 5  |  Strategy Guide
    Persuasive Writing
    This strategy guide focuses on persuasive writing and offers specific methods on how you can help your students use it to improve their critical writing and thinking skills.
15. Professional Development | Grades   6 – 12  |  Strategy Guide
    Power Notes
    The strategy examined in this Strategy Guide teaches students an outlining technique to help them differentiate between main ideas and details in their reading and writing.
16. Professional Development | Grades   6 – 12  |  Strategy Guide
    Preparing Students for Success with Reading in the Content Areas
    In this strategy guide, you'll learn how to determine the level and type of support you need to provide students based on careful preparation as a content area expert.
17. Professional Development | Grades   1 – 3  |  Strategy Guide
    Promote Deep Thinking! How to Choose a Complex Text
    Complex texts promote deep thinking and critical analysis by students. Through close reading of a complex text, students' independent reading abilities also increase.
18. Professional Development | Grades   8 – 12  |  Strategy Guide
    Promoting Student-Directed Inquiry with the I-Search Paper
    The sense of curiosity behind research writing gets lost in some school-based assignments. This Strategy Guide provides the foundation for cultivating interest and authority through I-Search writing, including publishing online.
19. Professional Development | Grades   6 – 12  |  Strategy Guide
    Promoting Student Self-Assessment
    In this Strategy Guide, you'll learn about a number of specific methods that will promote self-assessment and contribute to a richer understanding of student learning.
20. Professional Development | Grades   3 – 12  |  Strategy Guide
    Question the Author (QtA)
    In this guide, you'll be introduced to a strategy that requires students to challenge their understanding and solidify their knowledge while reading a text.

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