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Go Beyond Highlighting--
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Posted on February 18, 2019

Often annotation is reduced to little more than a set of codes and symbols that students are required to use while reading. This is a great first-step to annotating. However,...

Synthesize & Cite Evidence
from Multiple Sources

Posted on December 03, 2018

Students must read multiple texts in order to write an extended response citing evidence for all (or most) of the texts provided. This is going to require an extra level of...

Troubleshoot Evidence Errors
in Reading Responses

Posted on November 26, 2018

Students' early attempts at evidence-based responses often require some fine-tuning. Troubleshoot these three-common "evidence errors" within your reading instruction and...

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  • Previewing a Text
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Go Beyond Highlighting--
Expect Why-Lighting

Posted on February 18, 2019

Often annotation is reduced to little more than a set of codes and symbols that students are required to use while reading. This is a great first-step to annotating. However,...

Synthesize & Cite Evidence
from Multiple Sources

Posted on December 03, 2018

Students must read multiple texts in order to write an extended response citing evidence for all (or most) of the texts provided. This is going to require an extra level of...

Troubleshoot Evidence Errors
in Reading Responses

Posted on November 26, 2018

Students' early attempts at evidence-based responses often require some fine-tuning. Troubleshoot these three-common "evidence errors" within your reading instruction and...

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Helping Students Identify the Main Idea of Any Text

Posted on March 03, 2011

When teaching students about main idea, scaffold your instruction. Students need to first learn how to identify the concrete and literal before they can determine the inferential....

Teach Readers to Discern Text Structure

Posted on March 11, 2014

Authors organize their information intentionally. They present their ideas in an organized pattern. This is called text structure. Understanding text structure empowers readers....

Teach Constructed-Response Writing Explicitly

Posted on August 27, 2013

All the work you do to teach your students to read independently and comprehend proficiently is ultimately assessed in the form of a constructed reading response. Plan time...

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