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Learn to effectively teach close-reading skills in middle-school and high-school classrooms. Use literary analysis to increase students’ reading comprehension and critical thinking skills.

Learn how to increase vocabulary skills using quick, flexible vocabulary exercises. Discover vocabulary learning strategies for high school and middle school vocabulary words.

This user-friendly resource provides practical recommendations and strategies for designing units of study that center on students writing narrative fiction and nonfiction.

A companion to Teaching Basic, Academic, and Advanced Vocabulary by Robert J. Marzano, this notebook helps students learn and practice more than 5,000 vocabulary terms. Learners can build their literacy skills with a tiered vocabulary of basic English words, organized into word clusters.

This innovative resource provides more than 100 research-based mini-lessons that help teachers efficiently shape instruction, each taking less than 20 minutes.

Discover how to establish engaging argumentation units of instruction that empower students to present and convince others of their position.

Discover practical strategies and best practices for teaching writing skills in drafting, editing, revising, feedback, assessment, and student collaboration.

With the adoption of the Common Core State Standards, there is a renewed focus on developing writing skills and, along with it, an awareness that the new digital technologies have much to contribute in this vital area.

In this Common Core State Standards-aligned book, educators will discover research-based tips and strategies to improve literacy in upper elementary and middle school classrooms.

Explore the important relationship between text, learner, and learning, and gain an array of methods to establish critical literacy in a discussion-based classroom.