Classroom Resources

Literacy Strategies

• PEEL(point, evidence, explaination, sum up & link): Strategy for teaching kids how to write analysis of text (CCSS Reading 1) 
• Rubric
• Graphic Organizer, Another Graphic Organizer
• Vocabulary: Reseach-based best practices, classroom activities, & BHS Words to Watch List
• Literacy Pre-Test Exemplars:  See the prompt, rubric, and student exemplars with audio explanations.

Academic Discussions

• 5 Discussion Skills (a bookmark)
• Rubric
• Score Sheet

Argumentation Resources

• Writing Arguments
• For Content Teachers: BHS Rubric, Score Sheet
• For ELA Teachers:  BHS Rubric, Score Sheet
• Reading Arguments

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Lesson Plans
Series on Reading and Writing Arguments (more lessons coming):

• Using Signal Phrases to Introduce Evidence