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1. Professional Development | Grades   6 – 12  |  Strategy Guide
   Close Reading of Literary Texts
   This guide provides strategies for choosing text that is appropriate for close reading and to plan for instruction.
2. Professional Development | Grades   1 – 3  |  Strategy Guide
   Depend on the Text! How to Create Text-Dependent Questions
   Teachers need to create text-dependent questions to elicit close reading. When answering these questions, students learn to reread and think deeply about the text.
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   1 – 3  |  Strategy Guide
   Get Close to Think Deeply: Creating Primary-Level Close Readings
   Close readings allow primary students to engage with complex texts. Through repeated reading, students build a deep understanding of the text and critical thinking skills.
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   1 – 3  |  Strategy Guide
   Promote Deep Thinking! How to Choose a Complex Text
   Complex texts promote deep thinking and critical analysis by students. Through close reading of a complex text, students' independent reading abilities also increase.
8. Professional Development | Grades   5 – 12  |  Strategy Guide
   Reading on the Go
   In this Strategy Guide, learn how to prepare yourself and your students for reading and note-taking in mobile environments.
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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