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1. Professional Development | Grades   5 – 12  |  Strategy Guide
   Bringing Lessons to Life with Animoto
   Using Animoto, a free Web 2.0 tool, students can develop short digital videos that include music, photos, video clips, and text as well as share their creations electronically.
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. 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.
5. Professional Development | Grades   6 – 12  |  Strategy Guide
   Speak to Me: Teaching with Voki
   Through Voki, a Web 2.0 tool, students create customizable avatars for class presentations for various purposes, such as presenting biographical information, expressing an opinion, or reading a poem.
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   6 – 12  |  Strategy Guide
   Teaching with Zooming Slideshows through Prezi
   Through Prezi, a web application, students create "zooming" presentations for various purposes, such as presenting research, defending an opinion, or sharing a digital story.
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.