QUICK REFERENCE GUIDES

Close Reading Fundamentals

Learn the 10 steps for close reading instruction, how to assess close reading, and how to troubleshoot the process so that all students succeed with this powerful tool for learning in this guide from Diane Lapp and colleagues.

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Giving Students Effective Feedback

Feedback is one of the most important variables affecting student learning. Susan Brookhart shares how and when to provide effective feedback that helps students see where they are going, where they are now, and where they should go next in their learning.

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Grading for Student Learning

Explore grading and reporting strategies that motivate student learning and accurately reflect student achievement in this guide by Susan Brookhart. Learn ways to communicate clearly about grades and grading and how to involve students in the grading process.

Gradual Release of Responsibility in the Classroom

A quick-reference introduction to the gradual release of responsibility framework—a template for delivering powerful, effective, and engaging instruction that fosters independent learning—from Douglas Fisher and Nancy Frey.

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Everyday Vocabulary Strategies

Explore strategies and rubrics for assessing vocabulary learning, and plan how to team with your colleagues to increase vocabulary across your grade level or school. Get tips and resources from Marilee Sprenger that will help you increase students' vocabularies for greater reading success.

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Improving Classroom Discussion

Find tips, strategies, and examples to learn how to better help students speak and listen to one another in ways that help them make meaning and increase their understanding from questioning expert Jackie Acree Walsh.

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Inclusion Do's, Don'ts, and Do Betters

Noted inclusion expert Toby J. Karten details the essential do's, don'ts, and do betters for creating an inclusive classroom where all students are supported and receive the most effective instruction.

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Questioning Strategies to Activate Student Thinking

This handy guide by Jackie Acree Walsh helps teachers develop questions that connect students to learning goals, hold all students accountable for responding, and scaffold and support student thinking.

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Rubrics for Formative Assessment and Grading

Rubrics are essential to help students learn how to learn and are strong tools that support and enhance instruction and student learning. Learn how to create and use rubrics to improve assessment and understanding in the classroom in this guide from Susan Brookhart.

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Total Participation Techniques to Engage Students

Learn about the guiding principles of Total Participation Techniques from Pérsida Himmele and William Himmele and how to effectively use them in the classroom to encourage all students to participate in active learning—and to make it more likely that students will be cognitively engaged in lessons.

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