Instructional Strategies - Various classroom strategies are outlined in the following guides.

Anticipation Guides - creates curiosity, provides purpose, gives focus to the reading at hand

Bold Marks - marking the boldfaced terms that appear in textbooks

Centers - a classroom area that contains a collection of activities or materials designed to teach, reinforce, or extend a particular skill or concept.

ELO's - Evening Learning Opportunities

GIST - Generating Interactions between Schemata and Text

Learning Contracts - a negotiated agreement between teacher and student that gives students some freedom in acquiring skills and understandings that a teacher deems important at a given time. 

Novel in an Hour - picking apart a novel and reassembling it after analyzing the parts

Personal Agendas - personalized list of tasks that a particular student must complete in a specified time.

Somebody Wanted But So - SBWS offers students a framework as they create their summaries.

SPAWN - Special Powers, Problem Solving, Alternative Viewpoints, What If, Next

Stations - spots in the classroom where students work on various tasks simultaneously

Textbook Activity Guide - helps students better understand the structure of a confusing textbook.

Three Minute Pause - provides a chance for students to stop, reflect on the concepts and ideas that have just been introduced, make connections to prior knowledge or experience and seek clarification

Vocabulary Trees - recommended strategy for teaching students to use their root words.