These Strategy Guides offer varied ways to support students as they develop the skills and habits necessary to participate in evidence-based conversations.
![Evidence-based Discussions](/sites/default/files/styles/focal_point_350x350/public/2021-04/Evidence-based%20Discussions_0.jpg?h=5de123e2&itok=y93bo4Y6)
Evidence-based Discussions
![Inquiry-Based Learning](/sites/default/files/styles/focal_point_350x350/public/2021-04/Inquiry-Based%20Learning.jpg?h=51a72048&itok=S0x98kAy)
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Inquiry-Based Learning
Grades
K - 12
Strategy Guide Series
In this series of Strategy Guides, you'll learn about different methods and activities to encourage inquiry-based learning in your classroom.
![Reading in the content areas](/sites/default/files/styles/focal_point_350x350/public/2021-04/Reading%20in%20the%20Content%20Areas.jpg?h=013c064b&itok=Ux0DAjPa)
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Reading in the Content Areas
Grades
K - 12
Strategy Guide Series
In this Strategy Guide Series, you'll get information and ideas about teaching reading in the different content areas.
![differentiating instructions](/sites/default/files/styles/focal_point_350x350/public/2021-04/Differentiating%20Instruction.jpg?h=4a640200&itok=ikS8wnbJ)
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Differentiating Instruction
Grades
6 - 12
Strategy Guide Series
In this Strategy Guide series, you'll learn different methods to use in the classroom to meet the needs of all students.
![Teaching](/sites/default/files/styles/focal_point_350x350/public/2021-04/Teaching%20with%20Technology.jpg?h=f48f04d1&itok=uFzT3yMY)
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Teaching with Technology
Grades
6 - 12
Strategy Guide Series
In this strategy guide series, you will learn about reading online, blogs, podcasts, and online safety.
![teaching literacy](/sites/default/files/styles/focal_point_350x350/public/2021-04/Teaching%20Literacy%20Across%20the%20Gradual%20Release%20of%20Responsibility.jpg?h=04712cfc&itok=rNp5M0gd)
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Teaching Literacy Across the Gradual Release of Responsibility
Grades
K - 12
Strategy Guide Series
This series of strategy guides considers the ways that reading instruction in various contexts works together to help students develop independence as readers. Each strategy guide presents a strategy or instructional context in isolation, but this series of strategy guides is designed to support teachers as they explore the ways reading aloud, shared reading, guided reading, and independent reading all work together.
![performing literature](/sites/default/files/styles/focal_point_350x350/public/2021-04/Performing%20Literature%20to%20Promote%20Fluency%20and%20Comprehension.jpg?h=a159dc54&itok=nPtzk2TB)
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Performing Literature to Promote Fluency and Comprehension
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1 - 5
Strategy Guide Series
This study guide outlines three reading methods--Readers Theatre, choral reading, and performing poetry-- that can be used to promote fluency and comprehension.
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Teaching Writing
Grades
K - 5
Strategy Guide Series
This strategy guide series identifies, defines, and provides examples of effective writing strategies and offers a list of resources related to each strategy.
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What Works in Writing Instruction: Research and Practices
7 - 12
Professional Library
![Zora Neale Hurston in the Classroom: "With a Harp and a Sword in My Hands"](/sites/default/files/styles/focal_point_350x350/public/49_2.jpg?h=a5e8c0c4&itok=Bq_Ur8mF)
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Zora Neale Hurston in the Classroom: "With a Harp and a Sword in My Hands"
8 - 12
Professional Library
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The book offers a practical approach to Hurston using a range of student-centered activities for teaching Hurston's nonfiction, short stories, and the print and film versions of Their Eyes Were Watching God.
![Sherman Alexie in the Classroom: "This is not a silent movie. Our voices will save our lives."](/sites/default/files/styles/focal_point_350x350/public/50_2.jpg?h=390c5842&itok=cqTtaYz_)
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Sherman Alexie in the Classroom: "This is not a silent movie. Our voices will save our lives."
8 - 12
Professional Library
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Provides high school teachers with teaching strategies, classroom activities, and student samples for teaching the works of Sherman Alexie.
![Sandra Cisneros in the Classroom: "Do not forget to reach"](/sites/default/files/styles/focal_point_350x350/public/51_3.jpg?h=a991aded&itok=MzkiIUVc)
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Sandra Cisneros in the Classroom: "Do not forget to reach"
8 - 12
Professional Library
The third volume in the NCTE High School Literature Series explores the joys of reading and teaching the stories and poems of noted Mexican American author Sandra Cisneros.
![Langston Hughes in the Classroom: "Do Nothin' till You Hear from Me"](/sites/default/files/styles/focal_point_350x350/public/52_0.jpg?h=7d118478&itok=mj9IMx0i)
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Langston Hughes in the Classroom: "Do Nothin' till You Hear from Me"
8 - 12
Professional Library
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Carmaletta M. Williams provides high school teachers with background on Hughes and the Harlem Renaissance as well as help in teaching Hughes's poetry, short stories, novels, and autobiography.
![Judith Ortiz Cofer in the Classroom: A Woman in Front of the Sun](/sites/default/files/styles/focal_point_350x350/public/53_2.jpg?h=770f3c03&itok=feovQUyC)
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Judith Ortiz Cofer in the Classroom: A Woman in Front of the Sun
8 - 12
Professional Library
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Carol Jago offers ways to teach the works of Judith Ortiz Cofer in the high school English classroom.
![Amy Tan in the Classroom: "The art of invisible strength"](/sites/default/files/styles/focal_point_350x350/public/54.jpg?h=0a4622cf&itok=zJpzwqHa)
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Amy Tan in the Classroom: "The art of invisible strength"
8 - 12
Professional Library
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Offers high school teachers an activity-based approach to teaching the works of Amy Tan, especially The Joy Luck Club and The Opposite of Fate.
![Alice Walker in the Classroom: "Living by the Word"](/sites/default/files/styles/focal_point_350x350/public/55_3.jpg?h=67966fbf&itok=RVyNcIDD)
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Alice Walker in the Classroom: "Living by the Word"
8 - 12
Professional Library
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Carol Jago offers readers a handy guide for bringing this celebrated author's work into the classroom, including biographical information, ideas for literature circles using Walker's short stories, sample writing lessons using Walker's poems, suggestions for teaching The Color Purple, and a wealth of resources for further investigation of Alice Walker and her work.
![Power of Picture Books, The: Using Content Area Literature in Middle School](/sites/default/files/styles/focal_point_350x350/public/118_2.jpg?h=0305febb&itok=Pis8gePX)
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Power of Picture Books, The: Using Content Area Literature in Middle School
5 - 9
Professional Library
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Featuring descriptions and activities for fifty exceptional titles, Mary Jo Fresch and Peggy Harkins offer a wealth of ideas for harnessing the power of picture books to improve reading and writing in the content areas.
![360 Degrees of Text: Using Poetry to Teach Close Reading and Powerful Writing](/sites/default/files/styles/focal_point_350x350/public/246_3.jpg?h=1f1ed29f&itok=fADORMQl)
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360 Degrees of Text: Using Poetry to Teach Close Reading and Powerful Writing
6 - 12
Professional Library
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Through Eileen Murphy Buckley's 360-degree approach to teaching critical literacy, students investigate texts through a full spectrum of learning modalities, harnessing the excitement of performance, imitation, creative writing, and argument/debate activities to become more powerful thinkers, readers, and writers.
![Beyond Standardized Truth: Improving Teaching and Learning through Inquiry-Based Reading Assessment](/sites/default/files/styles/focal_point_350x350/public/247_2.jpg?h=5a32bf55&itok=cIORDD58)
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Beyond Standardized Truth: Improving Teaching and Learning through Inquiry-Based Reading Assessment
6 - 12
Professional Library
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Scott Filkins brings us into his and colleagues' classrooms to demonstrate how high school teachers across the disciplines can engage in inquiry-based reading assessment to support student learning. This book is part of the NCTE Principles in Practice imprint.
![Fresh Perspectives on New Literacies and Technology Integration](/sites/default/files/styles/focal_point_350x350/public/357_2.jpg?h=031b01a4&itok=CC-J1tal)
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Fresh Perspectives on New Literacies and Technology Integration
5 - 8
Professional Library
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This article provides practical ideas for integrating technologies into the classroom in ways that honor students' out-of-school technology funds of knowledge.