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Teacher Self-Assessment: Using Vocabulary Strategies
Adolescent Literacy > Vocabulary Instruction > Overview & Tools
Reading specialists and language arts curriculum coordinators can use this tool to help teachers reflect on ways they are embedding vocabulary strategies into their content area lessons. In...
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Classroom Observation: Improving Vocabulary Instruction
Adolescent Literacy > Vocabulary Instruction > Overview & Tools
This observation plan can be used to focus classroom observations and help content area teachers embed vocabulary strategies into regular classroom instruction. The observation tool offers...
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Lesson Planning: Preparing Content Area Activities
Adolescent Literacy > Vocabulary Instruction > Overview & Tools
This quick reference guide for preparing vocabulary activities provides content area teachers with a framework for thinking about and planning lessons that embed vocabulary strategies into...
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Learning Together About Schoolwide Vocabulary Instruction
Adolescent Literacy > Vocabulary Instruction > Overview & Tools
Use this tool to plan activities for an in-service for school staff to learn about implementing a schoolwide approach to vocabulary instruction. Content area teachers learn about explicit...
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Planning for Real-World Problems for Ratio, Rate, Proportion
Fractions > Ratio, Rate, Proportion > Overview & Tools
This planning tool helps middle-grade teachers develop practice problems based in real-world contexts that require students to work with ratios, rates, and proportions. Related Media and...
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Analyzing Student Work: Ratios
Fractions > Ratio, Rate, Proportion > Overview & Tools
Math coaches can use this analysis tool to help teachers review student work with ratios and determine what concepts and procedures students have grasped and where they may be struggling. Related...
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Learning Together About Teaching Rations and Proportional Reasoning
Fractions > Ratio, Rate, Proportion > Overview & Tools
This workshop allows math coaches to provide teachers with information on instructional strategies related to ratios, rates, and proportions. Related Media and Files: Focus on Ratios (Sample...
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Learning Together About Number Lines
Fractions > Fractions as Numbers > Overview & Tools
Math coaches can present this workshop to primary- and intermediate-grade teachers to demonstrate the versatile uses of number lines in explaining fraction concepts. Related Files and...
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Learning Together About Students' Misconceptions About Fraction Operations
Fractions > Fractions Operations > Overview & Tools
This professional development workshop is designed to create awareness about students’ potential misconceptions related to fraction operations. Related Media: Making Sense of Computational...
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Walk-Throughs: Teaching Fraction Operations
Fractions > Fractions Operations > Overview & Tools
Use the “look-fors” in this tool as a guide for observational walk-throughs of elementary and middle school math classes. Related Files and Media: Developing Effective Fractions Instructions...
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Planner: Meaningful Student Assignments With Fraction Operations
Fractions > Fractions Operations > Overview & Tools
Intermediate-grade teachers can use this planning tool to develop practice problems in adding and multiplying fractions based in real-world situations. Related Files and Media: Developing...
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Teacher-Coach Reflection on Practice: Fractions as Numbers
Fractions > Fractions as Numbers > Overview & Tools
This self-assessment helps teachers reflect on strategies they can use to improve students’ understanding of fractions as numbers with magnitudes that extend whole numbers. Related Files and...
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