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Professional Learning

Identifying Similarities and Differences

Listening Comprehension Skills for Elementary Students

Questioning to Understand Content Area Text

Organizing Research Reports

We Have Our Organizer…Now What? Writing Research Reports

Active Participation: Ensuring Student Engagement

Visualizing to Understand Content Area Text

Real Reading Begins with Metacognition

Creating Readers Theater Scripts from Informational Text

Differentiating at the Nonfiction Cafe

Teaching Students to Think about Text

Teacher Resources for Making Inferences, Using Context Clues

Summarizing and Synthesizing: What’s the Difference?

Cause-and-Effect Relationships in Play, Picture Books, and Text

Vocabulary Development and Nonlinguistic Representations: How Can Science Help?

Science Notebooks: Integrating Investigations

Determining Importance: Helping Students Recognize Important Points in Content Text

Note Taking: Enhancing the Ability to Comprehend Nonfiction Text

Writing Science-Themed Poetry in the Elementary Grades

Getting Students Engaged in Nonfiction Text

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