THE PRACTICE: Having Students Interact with Each Other and with Text
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Resources related to this practice:

• Literature Learning and Thinking in High School Classrooms
  http://cela.albany.edu/newslet/spring97/miller.html

  This article from the Center on English Learning & Achievement provides a brief look at some of the things a group of teachers did to help students internalize a dialogic way of learning and some of the ways that students applied their knowledge.

• A Horizon of Possibilities: A Critical Framework for Transforming Multiethnic Literature Instruction
  http://www.readingonline.org/articles/willis/

  This article focuses on a semester-long qualitative research study in which the teaching of a work of African-American literature that highlights issues of social justice was critically framed.

• Lesson Plan Index of Read Write Think
  http://www.readwritethink.org/lessons/index.asp

  Index of lesson plans searchable by grade levels. The lesson plans are thoughtful, well-written, and ask students to engage with the text and with each other. Each lesson plan begins with a theoretical basis, concludes with an assement component, is matched to IRA/NCTE Standards, and links to additional resources.

• Lesson: Intoduction to Measurement Vocabulary
  http://knowledgeloom.org/adlit/resources/CollabMathLessonMea
  surement_Burnell.pdf

  In this lesson, fifth grade teacher Melissa Burnell turns a typical textbook preview activity into a game, helping her students to assess and improve their understanding of measurement vocabulary through a word sort. Burnell developed this lesson during her participation in the 2007-2008 Adolescent Literacy Collaboratory, a program of The Education Alliance at Brown University.

• Lesson: Introduction to the Mole
  http://knowledgeloom.org/adlit/resources/CollabScienceLesson
  Mole_Rouhan.pdf

  In this lesson, high school chemistry teacher Polly Rouhan uses the jigsaw discussion strategy and an adapted Frayer vocbaulary chart to help her students synthesize key ideas from four different readings about the mole. Rouhan developed this lesson during her participation in the 2007-2008 Adolescent Literacy Collaboratory, a program of The Education Alliance at Brown University.

• Lesson: Short Story Comprehension and Vocabulary Building
  http://knowledgeloom.org/adlit/resources/CollabELALessonShor
  tStory_Carr.pdf

  In this two-period lesson, ninth grade English teacher Deborah Carr draws on annotation and vocabulary development strategies to help her students improve their comprehension and analysis of literary texts. The focus of the lesson is the setting in Arthur C. Clarke's short story "A Walk in the Dark," but it is easily adapted for other literary texts and focus areas. Carr developed this lesson during her participation in the 2007-2008 Adolescent Literacy Collaboratory, a program of The Education Alliance at Brown University.

• Lesson: The Lorax and Human-Environmental Interaction
  http://knowledgeloom.org/adlit/resources/CollabSSLessonLorax
  HEI_Damato.pdf

  In this lesson, sixth grade social studies teacher Andrea Damato uses the Dr. Seuss children's story The Lorax to help her students deepen their understanding of cause and effect, focusing on the harmful consequences of some types of human interaction with the environment. Damato developed this lesson during her participation in the 2007-2008 Adolescent Literacy Collaboratory, a program of The Education Alliance at Brown University.

• Using Collaborative Strategic Reading
  http://www.dldcec.org/pdf/teaching_how-tos/using_collaborative.pdf

  This pdf file, published by the Council for Exceptional Children, gives step-by step instructions and descriptions of Collaborative Strategic Reading and how to implement and support it in the 5-12 classroom.

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