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Reading Apprenticeship Academic Literacy (RAAL) Course: Teacher’s Guide Unit 2, Reading History
This second unit of the Reading Apprenticeship Academic Literacy Course introduces close reading of a range of history texts and genres. Readings focus on the topic of "rights," and especially the women's suffrage movement in the United States. Students continue to practice literacy skills introduced in Unit 1 and add new strategies related to the reading of history texts specifically.
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Reading Apprenticeship Academic Literacy (RAAL) Course: Student Reader Unit 2, Reading History
The Student Reader accompanying Unit 2: Reading History of the Reading Apprenticeship Academic Literacy Course introduces students to a range of history texts, including expository text, journalism, essays, and first-person narratives focused on the topic of "rights," especially the women's suffrage movement in the United States.
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Reading Apprenticeship Academic Literacy (RAAL) Course: Student Interactive Notebook Unit 2, Reading History
The Unit 2 Student Interactive Notebook for the Reading Apprenticeship Academic Literacy Course contains writing prompts, graphic organizers, and resources for partner, small group, and individual literacy investigations.
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Reading Apprenticeship Academic Literacy (RAAL) Course: Teacher’s Guide Unit 3, Reading Science
This third unit of the Reading Apprenticeship Academic Literacy Course introduces close reading of a range of science texts and genres. Readings focus on nutrition, physiology, and health, including special attention to the causes and dangers of obesity. Students continue to practice literacy skills introduced in Units 1 and 2 and add new strategies related to the reading of science texts specifically.
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Reading Apprenticeship Academic Literacy (RAAL) Course: Student Reader Unit 3, Reading Science
The Student Reader accompanying Unit 3: Reading Science of the Reading Apprenticeship Academic Literacy Course introduces students to a range of science texts, including textbook and other expository text, illustrations, lab directions, tables, graphs, trend data, and journalism all focused on the interrelated topics of nutrition, physiology, and health, with special attention to the obesity epidemic in the United States.
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Reading Apprenticeship Academic Literacy (RAAL) Course: Student Interactive Notebook Unit 3, Reading Science
The Unit 3 Student Interactive Notebook for the Reading Apprenticeship Academic Literacy Course contains writing prompts, graphic organizers, and resources for partner, small group, and individual literacy investigations.
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Reading Apprenticeship Academic Literacy (RAAL) Course: Teacher’s Materials, Units 1-3
This package of Teacher's Guides for the Reading Apprenticeship Academic Literacy Course includes all teacher materials needed to teach the full two-semester course.
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Reading Apprenticeship Academic Literacy (RAAL) Course: Student Materials, Units 1-3
This package of student materials for Units 1, 2, and 3 of the Reading Apprenticeship Academic Literacy Course includes all of the materials that students need to participate in the full two-semester course.
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Literacy Instruction in the Content Areas: Getting to the Core of Middle and High School Improvement
This report urges higher expectations for all students in reading and writing, and new approach to improving these skills.
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Reimagining Our Inexperienced Adolescent Readers: From Struggling, Striving, Marginalized, and Reluctant to Thriving
This commentary, written by Cynthia Greenleaf, codeveloper of WestEd's Reading Apprenticeship instructional framework, and Kathleen Hinchman, confronts the issue of literacy instruction for older youth in the United States who struggle with reading. In many U.S. schools, many young people face an impoverished curriculum, receiving literacy instruction that is ill suited to their needs, or worse, receiving no literacy instruction at all.
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Building Academic Literacy: Lessons from Reading Apprenticeship Classrooms, Grades 6-12
"Whenever we read books about teaching, we ask ourselves, 'But what does that look like in the classroom?' Building Academic Literacy: Lessons from Reading Apprenticeship Classrooms answers the question of what 'Academic Literacy' is, why it matters, and how teachers can develop these key intellectual habits in their students. This book, and its companion anthology, provide me the guidance and resources that I need." — Jim Burke, author, The Reader's Handbook and The English Teacher's Companion
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Building Academic Literacy: An Anthology for Reading Apprenticeship
This themed anthology for middle and high school students invites them to explore topics related to literacy and its relevance to their lives and their futures.
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Common Core and Low-Performing Students
The Common Core State Standards (CCSS) provide an opportunity to change education practices to turn around the performance of student groups most in need of improvement.
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Evaluation of The Electric Company Summer Learning Program
Thirty years ago, The Electric Company (TEC) television show won the hearts of children because it made learning fun. Read on to learn how a reinvention of the classic 70s show continues to show children that learning can be fun, thereby creating better academic outcomes.
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Persuasion Across Time and Space: Analyzing and Producing Complex Texts
The goal of this teaching unit is to provide exemplars illustrating how English Language Arts Common Core Standards in Reading Informational Text and Writing Arguments can be used to deepen and accelerate the instruction and learning of English language learners, especially at the middle school level.
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Instruction for Diverse Groups of English Language Learners
Common Core State Standards provide educators with an unprecedented opportunity to reconceptualize the teaching of English language learners (ELLs) and improve educational outcomes. This paper offers five guiding principles for maximizing the immense potential of ELLs in the classroom.
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