• How to Differentiate Instruction in a Mixed-ability Classroom.2nd Ed.
  Carol Ann Tomlinson One of our most popular books ever—NOW UPDATED! Three new chapters, extended examples, and field-tested strategies help teachers succeed in today’s increasingly diverse classrooms. Learn proven ideas for how to match instructional approaches to the readiness, interests, and talents of all students: learning centers, hands-on activities, contracts, and investigative projects. Plus, read about new ways of structuring lessons to provide “scaffolds” for the lesson content, the procedures used in learning, and the products of learning.
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• The Research Process: A Research Guide and Stylebook for Teachers and Students
  This site provided by Roseburg HS in Oregon provides great resources for the teaching (or student use of) the research process. There are many helpful activities.
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• Tools for Reading Writing and Thinking: A Resource for Students
  Excellent resource. No direct link. Select Curriculum and Instruction, Select English Language Arts, Select Tools for Reading, Writing and Thinking in Elem. or Sec.
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• ESL Resources, Handouts and Exercises for Students and Teachers
  We have many different materials for English as a Second Language (ESL) students and teachers, which include resource pages, handouts, and exercises.
  The Online Writing Lab (OWL) at Purdue University houses writing resources and instructional material, and we provide these as a free service of the Writing Lab at Purdue. Students, members of the community, and users worldwide will find information to assist with many writing projects.
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• History Matters: The U.S. Survey Course on the Web (some student prepared sites)
  Designed for high school and college teachers and students, History Matters serves as a gateway to web resources and offers other useful materials for teaching
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• I Read It, but I Don't Get It: Comprehension Strategies for Adolescent Readers
  I Read It, but I Don't Get It is a practical, engaging account of how teachers can help adolescents develop new reading comprehension skills. Cris Tovani is an accomplished teacher andstaff developer who writes with verve and humor about the challenges of working with students at all levels of achievement -from those who have mastered the art of "fake reading" to college-bound juniors and seniors who struggle with the different demands of content-area textbooks and novels.
  Stenhouse books and videos help K-12 teachers deepen their professional knowledge and build their students' skills as readers, writers, and thinkers.
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• Internet Activities for Students to support the curriculum
  This Standards-Based Internet Resource Guide exists as a resource for students that links to activity sites in support of the CPS Curriculum and Educational Goals.
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• Making Sense: Small-Group Comprehension Lessons for English Language Learners
  Reading is all about understanding. Many English language learners simply do not understand what they are reading, whether it's a picture book, a literature selection, or a science textbook. Juli Kendall and Outey Khuon believe that small group comprehension lessons have a key role to play in advancing students' understanding of texts.
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• Mental Karate (Empowerment Program Mawi Asegedom)
  Mental Karate takes students on a challenging inner journey, where students progress from White to Black Belt by applying five timeless principles: Initiative, Discipline, Contribution, Courage, and Awareness. By the time a student earns his/her Black Belt, a student has taken five significant acts of initiative, demonstrated discipline for forty-five days, contributed in four significant ways, taken five acts of courage, and shown heightened awareness for thirty days .
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• Multicultural - Effective Instruction for ELL - Univ. of Minn.
  This case explores key issues in multicultural education from the perspective of students from diverse backgrounds. You can think about this topic of multicultural education by listening to these students talk about their schools, teachers, communities and identities. Then look for ways their experiences and opinions can inform your teaching.
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• Teaching Secondary Language Minority Students
  CREDE's Five Standards for Effective Teaching and Learning express the principles of effective pedagogy for all students. Jana Echevarria and Claude Goldenberg discuss applicaitons for secondary ELLs
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• Understanding by Design Expanded 2nd Ed
  How do you know when students understand something? Can you design learning experiences that make it much more likely that students understand content and apply it in meaningful ways? Since 1998, thousands of educators have used Understanding by Design to answer these questions and create more rigorous and engaging curriculums. Now, this expanded second edition gives you even more tools and strategies for results-oriented teaching
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• We Made Do - Recalling The Great Depression (HS student project)
  "We Made Do" is an on-going project of the students in Mooresville High School in Mooresville, Indiana. The project's focus is on the 1930's, the era of the Great Depression. It contains oral histories, period photographs and e-mailed contributions of viewers who have taken time to share their memories of living in this period of economic upheaval. This page is dedicated to that generation who were forged on the anvil of the Great Depression and then tempered and toughened by the bellows wind of World War II... an era that produced a remarkable group of humankind.
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• ESL Standards for Pre-K-12 Students
  National standards for ESL currently being revised to reflect more content. They will be based on the new WIDA English Language Proficiency Standards used in Illinois and other states in the consortium
  The challenge of contemporary education is to prepare all students for life in this new world, including those learners who enter schools with a language other than English. The purpose of Promising Futures is to identify the ESL standards and their role in meeting this challenge.
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• Still Learning to Read Teaching Students in Grades 3–6
  Book by Franki Sibberson and Karen Szymusiak Teachers in grades 3 through 6 are discovering this conventional wisdom is wrong—their students have to deal with an increasingly sophisticated range of texts that require additional reading skills. Upper elementary teachers face the difficult task of trying to offer appropriate reading instruction just as many of their students have their first experiences with textbooks, high stakes exams, and complex reading in new genres.
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• Strategies for Immigrant Students in Sec.Schools.
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