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Close and Critical Reading

Think Aloud

Think Aloud requires readers to stop during their reading to think, reflect and discuss their process. Readers talk about skipping text, rereading, searching back in the text for information, questioning, clarifying, summarizing, making connections, reflecting, predicting and visualizing.

Grade Level

3-5

July 19, 2014

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November 6, 2012

Dent Middle School’s Mix It Up Skits Were a Hit!

In preparation for Mix It Up at Lunch Day, Dent Middle School students designed t-shirts, performed skits on the morning news show and decorated the lunchroom. Their event was a huge success!

professional development

Diversity Responsive Principal’s Tool

March 21, 2017

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Issue 55, Spring 2017

Harvey Milk

Download and post this inspiring quote in your classroom.

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April 20, 2010

Congrats to This Year’s Mix It Up Model Schools!

Over 3,000 schools across the country challenged social boundaries on national Mix It Up at Lunch Day last November. Some schools took it to the next level by actively embracing respect and inclusiveness as core values of their school communities.

teaching strategy

Word Work

Guess the Covered Word

Guess the Covered Word challenges students’ vocabularies and reading comprehension by requiring them to deduce words redacted from a text.

Grade Level

3-5

CCSS

RL.3-5.4, RI.3-5.4, RF.3-5.4, L.3-5.4

July 19, 2014

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Literature

Raspberries! An American Tale of Cooperation

A yellow bird holds a raspberry in her long beak. The sun shines in the background.

With only one wing, the little bird cannot fly to the raspberry patch with her brothers. As luck would have it, she meets a little dog, a chipmunk, and a frog who work together to get them all across the street to the raspberry patch.

Mary Newell DePalma

Grade Level

K-2

Topic

Ability

July 2, 2014

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Issue 29, Spring 2006

e-bully

Teaching Tolerance illustration of a snake tongue coming out of a cellphone

Thanks to online spaces, bullying has never been easier. Here’s how you can intervene.

Topic

Bullying & Bias

professional development

Action Steps for Educators to Take to Stop Bullying

Use this chart as a starting point to help participants in your staff training identify specific actions they can take.

August 13, 2010

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November 2, 2012

Arrowwood Elementary School Mixes It Up on YouTube!

As part of Mix it Up at Lunch Day, Arrowwood Elementary School in Highlands Ranch, Colorado provided students with a series of ice-breakers to spice up the conversation and help create new friendships. The Douglas County School District’s video of the event shows what Mix It Up is all about!

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