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1. 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.
2. 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.
3. Professional Development | Grades   5 – 12  |  Strategy Guide
   Facilitating Participation with Silent Conversations
   This guide introduces silent conversations, a collaborative learning technique that has students
   thinking, sharing, and reflecting about important questions—but through writing rather than talk.
4. 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.
5. 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.
6. 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.
7. 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.
8. 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.
9. 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.
10. 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.

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