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Using Podcasts and Documentaries to Supercharge Background Knowledge and Bolster Reading Comprehension
Three Simple Steps to Empowered Word-Learning
Using morphology, context clues, and outside resources to help students decipher word meanings
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Choral Counting: A Lever to Develop Fraction Understanding
A model process for using choral counting to build conceptual understanding
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Using Exit Tickets Strategically
Educators share how they've made exit tickets a powerful tool for supporting students
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Providing Feedback on Student Writing
Strategies to deliver positive, focused feedback to improve all aspects of student writing
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Taking the First Step in Designing Mathematics Intervention
As you plan a math intervention strategy, where should you focus first?
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Wit & Wisdom: Implementation Dos and Don’ts
Lessons learned from teachers who've implemented the curriculum
Using Content and Language Objectives to Help All Students in Their Learning
Strategies from an English Language Learner Specialist
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Addressing Common Challenges with Student Writing
Why aren’t students successful writers and what can teachers do to help?
Creating and Sequencing Text-Dependent Questions to Support English Language Learners
Strategic selection and organization of questions can be a scaffold that helps English learners grapple with highly complex questions.
Considering Reading Instruction with the End in Mind
Meet students not only where they are, but also where they're going.
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Re-Teaching Doesn’t Always Mean Repeating
Consider alternative ways to re-teach when students struggle with new content
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How to Select Math Intervention Content
How do you diagnose the root causes of grade-level math struggles, and design targeted interventions to address them?
Three APPS to Support Students with Special Needs
Helping All Kids Grapple with Grade-Level Content
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Addressing unfinished learning in the context of grade-level work
Not all unfinished learning should be treated the same way
Creating Student Empowerment Through Your Garden-Variety Graphic Organizer
How I use graphic organizers in my classroom to promote student independence
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Designing Shifts-Aligned Interventions in the Math Classroom
Avoid common pitfalls when it comes to supporting students with unfinished math learning
High-impact strategies for teaching writing with evidence at the high school level
An interdisciplinary PLC develops common strategies and rubrics to support student writing.
Creating a Feedback Culture
Using effective feedback to help students master their learning goals
Blended Learning: The Station Rotation Model
Find out how a blended learning station-focused model can help you differentiate instruction and give ALL students the support they need to tackle grade-level work
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At the Foundation of Foundational Skills: Structured Phonics
Learn how structured phonics instruction is critical to literacy development and a necessary part of an ELA curriculum
Top 5 Questions About ELA Scaffolding in High School
What do we do when they “don’t get it”?
Top 5 Questions about ELA Scaffolding in Elementary School
Real-world advice for how to scaffold complex text for struggling students
How to Create Book Baskets
Designing book baskets to boost motivation, enthusiasm and engagement
Designing Classroom Libraries that Build Knowledge, Vocabulary, and Engagement
The benefits of topic-based independent reading on student motivation
Strategies to Support Learners Who Are Below Grade Level
An experienced educator introduces different support methods to allow struggling students to engage with grade-level materials.
Materials Adaptation, Research and Reflections, Standards-Alignment Information, Tools and Resources
Training Materials for the ELA/Literacy IMET
New training modules on the IMET’s Non-Negotiables and Alignment Criteria
Supplementing Your Curriculum with Knowledge-Building Text Sets
Discover why text sets work and how to use them to build student knowledge
Supporting All Learners with Complex Texts
Strategies to scaffold instruction of Standards-aligned, complex texts
