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QUICK REFERENCE GUIDES

ASCD Quick Reference Guides cover fundamental education topics in a handy format that's perfect for time-pressed study groups or individuals. Written by recognized experts, the guides are packed with instructional tips and solutions that you can put into practice right away.

Each 8.5' x 11" multipanel guide is laminated for extra durability and 3-hole-punched for binder storage.

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New! Managing Your Classroom with Restorative Practices

Dominique Smith, Douglas Fisher and Nancy Frey

In this laminated guide authors Dominique Smith, Douglas Fisher and Nancy Frey offer positive and proactive tips for creating a respectful classroom, developing rapport with students, managing conflicts, and establishing expectations for student behavior.

New! The Formative Assessment Learning Cycle

Susan M. Brookhart and
Jay McTighe

In this guide, experts Susan Brookhart and Jay McTighe show how best to incorporate the formative learning cycle into everyday instruction. They offer techniques for sharing learning targets, assessment activities to use in the classroom, and strategies for providing student feedback.

New! Personalizing Learning in Your Classroom

Allison Zmuda and
Bena Kallick

In this laminated guide, authors Allison Zmuda and Bena Kallick explain the four attributes of personalized learning, provide tips to build student readiness in the classroom, and describe the seven elements of progressively student-driven learning.

Browse Quick Reference Guides

Close Reading Fundamentals - ASCD Quick Reference Guide

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.

Designing and Using Essential Questions - ASCD Quick Reference Guide

Designing and Using Essential Questions

Packed with tips and examples of process questions to use in the classroom, this guide, by Jay McTighe, is a starting point for any teacher to learn how essential questions will benefit all students.

Everyday Vocabulary Strategies - ASCD Quick Reference Guide

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.

Giving Students Effective Feedback - ASCD Quick Reference Guide

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.

Grading for Student Learning - ASCD Quick Reference Guide

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 - ASCD Quick Reference Guide

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.

Guiding Meaningful Math Conversations - ASCD Quick Reference Guide

Guiding Meaningful Math Conversations

In this handy laminated guide, Laney Sammons shows how to engage students in constructive math conversations that help them solve problems and build mathematical meaning.

Improving Classroom Discussion - ASCD Quick Reference Guide

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.

Inclusion Do's, Don'ts, and Do Betters - ASCD Quick Reference Guide

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.

Questioning Strategies to Activate Student Thinking - ASCD Quick Reference Guide

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.

Rubrics for Formative Assessment and Grading - ASCD Quick Reference Guide

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.

Total Participation Techniques to Engage Students - ASCD Quick Reference Guide

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.

Understanding Differentiated Instruction - ASCD Quick Reference Guide

Understanding Differentiated Instruction

This laminated guide from Carol Ann Tomlinson covers the key terms, principles, and practices of differentiation and provides teachers with low-prep strategies for getting started. It is a perfect introductory resource for understanding how to better reach and teach all students.