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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   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.
3. 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.
4. 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.
5. Professional Development | Grades   K – 12  |  Strategy Guide
   Shared Writing
   This strategy guide explains how to use shared writing to teach students effective strategies that will improve their own independent writing ability.
6. Professional Development | Grades   6 – 12  |  Strategy Guide
   Supporting Student Comprehension in Content Area Reading
   In this strategy guide, you'll learn a few simple, yet powerful, techniques to encourage students to use peer talk and writing to enhance their understanding of content area texts.
7. Professional Development | Grades   5 – 12  |  Strategy Guide
   The Art of the Doodle: Writing with Imagination
   Use independent, imaginative artwork and varied writing prompts to assess understanding of a given topic for a student body with differentiated needs.
8. Professional Development | Grades   5 – 12  |  Strategy Guide
   Using the RAFT Writing Strategy
   This strategy guide introduces the RAFT technique and offers practical ideas for using this technique to teach students to experiment with various perspectives in their writing.
9. Professional Development | Grades   K – 12  |  Strategy Guide
   Write Alouds
   This strategy guide explains how to use write-aloud (also known as modeled writing) to teach effective writing strategies and improve students' independent writing ability.