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Agree? Disagree? Why? - updated 11/6/2009

Bleich's Heuristic for Responding to Reading - updated 11/6/2009

Book Clubs and Peer Discussion Groups

Book Conversations

Clustering

Discussion Webs - updated 11/6/2009

DR-TA: Directed Reading-Thinking Activity - updated 11/6/2009

Fluency Activities - updated 11/6/2009

Herringbone

K-W-L Instruction Strategy - updated 11/6/2009

Literature Circles

Manzo's Guided Reading Procedure (Adaptation)

Matrices or Charts (also called Semantic Feature Analysis or Distinctive Features Activity)

PreP

Problem and Solution Outline and Text Frame

Reader's Theater - updated 11/6/2009

ReQuest

Save the Last Word for Me (Adaptation)

Semantic Mapping - updated 11/6/2009

Series-of-Events Chain and Text

Sketch to Stretch

Think Alouds - updated 11/6/2009

Think-Pair-Share - updated 11/6/2009

Venn Diagrams - updated 11/6/2009

Vocabulary Self-Collection Strategy - updated 11/6/2009

Word Sorts - updated 11/6/2009