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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   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.
4. 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.
5. 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.
6. 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.
7. 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.
   
8. Professional Development | Grades   K – 12  |  Strategy Guide
   Using Word Walls to Develop and Maintain Academic Vocabulary
   In this guide, you will learn how to use Word Walls to support vocabulary development and retention.