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| About the Author | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Preface | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Basic Ingredients | |
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| Comprehension | |
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| What Is Comprehension, and Why Is It Important? | |
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| My Theory of Comprehension | |
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| Why Background Knowledge Is So Important | |
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| Key Critical Reading Skill 1: Paraphrasing | |
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| How Can You Teach Students How to Paraphrase? | |
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| Key Critical Reading Skill 2: Inference | |
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| Key Critical Reading Skill 3: Vocabulary in Context (and Vocabulary Instruction) | |
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| Key Critical Reading Skill 4: Inferring Main Idea or Argument (AKA Summarizing) | |
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| TLC Download Zone for Comprehension Process | |
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| Reading | |
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| Decoding + Fluency and Comprehension = Reading | |
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| Nonfiction Versus Everything Else | |
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| Different Types of Readers | |
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| Independent and Guided Reading | |
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| Introduction to Reading Strategically | |
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| Before-Reading Strategies | |
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| During-Reading Strategies | |
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| Textbook Reading: How to Make Life Less Painful for Everyone Involved | |
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| How to Use the Teachers' Manual | |
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| The Truth About Textbook "Reading" Tests | |
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| After-Reading Strategies | |
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| Reading Workshop: Something to Consider | |
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| TLC Download Zone for Reading | |
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| Writing | |
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| Read Well to Write Well | |
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| Why We Write (and Read) | |
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| Punchy Insights, or How to Avoid Writing Like a Robot | |
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| A Simple Recipe for Writing Instruction | |
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| What Students Struggle With the Most When They Write | |
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| Thesis Brainstorming and Organizing | |
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| Teaching with Mentor Texts | |
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| Writing Workshop 101 | |
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| Motivational Grammar | |
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| Rubrics and How to Spend Less Time Grading | |
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| TLC Download Zone for Writing | |
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| Speaking and Listening | |
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| Why Oral Fluency Matters | |
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| How to Train Students to Listen and Speak Effectively | |
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| More Thoughts on Effective Speaking | |
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| Class Discussion Logistics | |
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| Socratic Seminars Made Easy | |
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| Book Talk Projects | |
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| TLC Downloads for Speaking and Listening | |
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| Entr�es | |
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| Tasty Persuasive Writing | |
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| The Concept of Persuasion | |
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| How to Prepare Students for Persuasive Writing Tasks | |
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| Reading, Writing, and Test Prep "Stew" | |
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| An Argument for Stew | |
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| Connecting Key Critical Reading Skills to Test Prep Instruction | |
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| Test Prep Tips | |
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| Connecting Writing to Reading Through Genre Study | |
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| Open-Ended Responses | |
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| The Document-Based Question Approach | |
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| What Are DBQs, and Why Should Everyone Use Them? | |
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| Designing DBQs Across the Curriculum | |
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| Research Paper Guide | |
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| Reading and the Research Paper | |
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| How to Avoid RPT (Research Paper Torture) | |
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| Two Sample Research Paper Assignments | |
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| Research Paper Teachers' Guide | |
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| Teaching with Novels | |
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| Novels in English Language Arts: Literary Response Paper Writing Guide | |
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| Using Novels in History, Social Studies, and Science | |
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| Desserts | |
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| Recommended Reading | |
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| On Reading and Vocabulary | |
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| On Writing | |
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| On Curriculum and Instruction | |
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| On How We Think About Teaching, Learning, and Change | |
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| Appendix | |
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| Notes | |
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| Index | |