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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   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Recurring Lesson
   Choosing, Chatting, and Collecting: Vocabulary Self-Collection Strategy
   Students identify interesting words from Shakespeare's plays and add them to a classroom vocabulary collection.
3. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Recurring Lesson
   Flip-a-Chip: Examining Affixes and Roots to Build Vocabulary
   Do your students detest having to define vocabulary words? Don"t confine them to worksheets—turn the study of affixes and roots into a hands-on contest to create context-rich vocabulary puzzles.
4. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Recurring Lesson
   Get the GIST: A Summarizing Strategy for Any Content Area
   GIST is a summarizing technique that can be used in any content area. Students will learn and apply the strategy while doing online research and writing activities on news stories.
5. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Recurring Lesson
   Girls Read: Online Literature Circles
   In this lesson designed especially for girls, students read a work of realistic fiction and get to know strong female protagonists through online literary circles and writing activities.
   
6. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Recurring Lesson
   Guided Comprehension in Action: Teaching Summarizing With the Bio-Cube
   Students learn the ins and outs of writing biographies by researching a contemporary or historical figure and writing a summary.
7. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 6  |  Lesson Plan  |  Recurring Lesson
   Guided Comprehension: Knowing How Words Work Using Semantic Feature Analysis
   Based on the Guided Comprehension Model developed by Maureen McLaughlin and Mary Beth Allen, this lesson introduces students to the comprehension strategy of knowing how words work.
8. Classroom Resources | Grades   4 – 6  |  Lesson Plan  |  Recurring Lesson
   Guided Comprehension: Monitoring Using the INSERT Technique
   Based on the Guided Comprehension Model developed by Maureen McLaughlin and Mary Beth Allen, this lesson introduces students to the comprehension strategy of monitoring.
9. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 6  |  Lesson Plan  |  Recurring Lesson
   Guided Comprehension: Previewing Using an Anticipation Guide
   Based on the Guided Comprehension Model developed by Maureen McLaughlin and Mary Beth Allen, this lesson introduces students to the comprehension strategy of previewing.
10. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 6  |  Lesson Plan  |  Recurring Lesson
    Guided Comprehension: Summarizing Using the QuIP Strategy
    Students learn to use the QuIP (questions into paragraphs) comprehension strategy to organize information and then synthesize it in writing.

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