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A good description of strategy minilesson instruction with GRR

A collection of instructional strategies, i.e. "tools," and templates and videos for implementation of the tools. From the site homepage: "For every tool you'll find: An explanation of how and when to use it, a template students can use to implement the tool, a place to take notes about how you use each tool."

A succinct introduction to what it means to apprentice youth in the disciplinary literacies

A guide for matching strategy to text

Lesson plan for developing discussion

"...[I]f we are knowledgeable about the distinct differences among content areas why are we using generic literacy strategies across the content areas? Generic literacy approaches across the content areas have not produced the results we have been looking for in our students’ literacy or content knowledge, skills, and performance."

I never thought about the connection between annotation and the art of illuminating manuscripts. I also never thought about annotation as a way to make inaccessible, conventional text more visual and mutlimodal!