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About-Point

Admit Slips and Exit Slips - updated 11/6/2009

Affinity Diagram

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

Brainstorming Activities (Guidelines)

Character-O-Grams

Concept Circles

Concept of Definition Word Maps

• CD Word Map

Discussion Webs - updated 11/6/2009

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

Expectation Outlines

Fluency Activities - updated 11/6/2009

Frayer Model

Herringbone

I-Charts - updated 11/6/2009

Identifying Similarities

Intra-Act

Jigsaw Groups - updated 11/6/2009

Knowledge Ratings

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

Language Experience Activity (LEA)

List-Group-Label

Literature Circles

Magnet Summaries

Manzo's Guided Reading Procedure (Adaptation)

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

Multicultural Books in Family Literacy Programs

New-Knew-Q - updated 11/6/2009

PreP

Problem and Solution Outline and Text Frame

Question-Answer Relationships (QAR) - updated 11/6/2009

Questioning Author

Questioning Strategies - updated 11/6/2009

Reader's Theater - updated 11/6/2009

Reciprocal Teaching

ReQuest

Save the Last Word for Me (Adaptation)

Selecting Literature for Adults

Semantic Mapping - updated 11/6/2009

Series-of-Events Chain and Text

Sketch to Stretch

Strategies to Support Collaboration

Subjective Approach to Vocabulary (SAV)

Summarizing - updated 11/6/2009

Think Alouds - updated 11/6/2009

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

Three Level Guide

Timeline

Venn Diagrams - updated 11/6/2009

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

Vocabulary Wordmaps

Word Sorts - updated 11/6/2009