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1. 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.
2. Professional Development | Grades   3 – 12  |  Strategy Guide
   Inquiry Charts (I-Charts)
   This guide introduces I-Charts, a strategy that enables students to generate meaningful questions about a topic and organize their writing.
3. Professional Development | Grades   K – 8  |  Strategy Guide
   Introducing Ideas and Vocabulary with the Concept Sort
   A Concept Sort is a vocabulary and comprehension strategy used with students to introduce new topics and/or familiarize students with new vocabulary.
4. 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.
5. 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.
6. Professional Development | Grades   3 – 12  |  Strategy Guide
   Using Concept Circles to Develop Academic Vocabulary
   In this guide, you will learn how to use the Concept Circles strategy to support vocabulary development and comprehension of complex text.
7. Professional Development | Grades   4 – 12  |  Strategy Guide
   Using Generative Sentences to Apply Academic Vocabulary
   In this guide, you will learn how to use generative sentences to give students opportunities to apply their knowledge of new words in writing.
8. Professional Development | Grades   K – 6  |  Strategy Guide
   Using Paired Reading to Increase Fluency and Peer Cooperation
   In this strategy, students read aloud to each other, pairing more fluent readers with less fluent readers. This strategy can also be used to pair older students with younger students to create "reading buddies."
9. Professional Development | Grades   3 – 8  |  Strategy Guide
   Using the Jigsaw Cooperative Learning Technique
   In this strategy guide, you will learn how to organize students and texts to allow for learning that meets the diverse needs of students but keeps student groups flexible.
10. Professional Development | Grades   K – 12  |  Strategy Guide
    Using the Think-Pair-Share Technique
    In this strategy guide, you will learn how to organize students and classroom topics to encourage a high degree of classroom participation and assist students in developing a conceptual understanding of a topic through the use of the Think-Pair-Share technique.
    

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