• Basic Food Preparation: Curriculum
  Pomperuag High School Region 15 This curriculum provides and example of Focus Questions for Curriculum (It does not include understandings.)
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• Better Answers: Written Performance That Looks Good and Sounds Smart
  Improve student extended-response answers and develop a life-long skill. Ardith Davis Cole has developed an easy-to-implement, step-by-step protocol, the "Better Answer" formula, that helps students focus on the task at hand. It is a process that begins with teacher modeling, invites increasing amounts of student participation, and eventually moves students into independent response writing.
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• COOPERATIVE STRUCTURES: Examples, Roles, Comparative Matrix
  This packet is to support Jeanette Gordon's workshops. She summarized Spencer Kagan's cooperative structures for asking questions and gave multiple examples of each. The roles she uses for intermediate and sec. learners are explained.
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• Core Literature Content Focus (Language Arts K-8)
  Essential questions for the core literature titles in the curriculum for Pomperaug Regional School District 15
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• Essential Questions in Teaching and Learning
  Inquiring into Essential Questions gives teaching and learning purposeful, meaningful and "big picture" focus for learning details and ideas. It engages higher mental and emotional capacities at a time when "high stakes" testing trivializes students' thinking and learning.
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• Exploring Differentiated Instruction (Chat Transcript)
  Carol Ann Tomlinson, a leading authority on differentiated instruction, discussed the core principles of the practice and took your questions on using it in the classroom and as a strategy for whole-school improvement. Education Week
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• Introduction to Thinking Skills
  Instructional Framework This site provides templates for educators to use to enhance higher order thinking skills, including samples of types of questions that can stimulate students to think more critically. Rec. by Colorin Colorado
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• Literature Questions
  A slide presentation of literature questions for a university literature course.
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• Q Tasks: How to Empower Students to Ask Questions and Care About Answers
  View entire book online. Carol Koechlin and Sandi Zwaanh off this step-by-step book which outlines more than 80 tried-and-proven classroom activities that will take students beyond memorization and rote learning. Teachers will find innovative ways to help students ask real questions that focus on personal understanding and give them ownership of their learning experience
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• Repeated Interactive Read-Alouds in Preschool and Kindergarten
  From Reading Rockets By: Cheryl K. Iannucci (2007) Research has demonstrated that the most effective read-alouds are those where children are actively involved asking and answering questions and making predictions, rather than passively listening. This article describes in detail a technique for a three-step interactive read-aloud using sophisticated storybooks.
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• SciLinks Tour
  SciLinks is a free service—all you need is a SciLinks-enabled textbook and a computer connected to the World Wide Web. And SciLinks is easy to use—just log on to the SciLinks site and enter a SciLinks number from the margin of your textbook. You will be offered a smorgasbord of teacher-approved Internet resources tied to that specific point in your book! Tools for generating question pools for tests are also available. If you have just one book from the several companies that provide this resource, you would know the codes to access the selected sites.
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• Socratic Seminar
  This differentiation strategy for group interaction and individual accountability is based on the Socratic Method. Description, Process, Examples, Assessment and Resourcs. Samples (War in Iraq for secondary students is the most thorough)
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• Stenhouse Publishers - Asking Better Questions (Second Edition):
  Browse entire book online. The new edition of the classic book Asking Better Questions by Morgan and Saxton helps teachers encourage active learning and democratic participation by providing models, techniques, and activities that promote better questioning by both teachers and students.
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• Themes & Essential Questions
  This site provides lots of support for thematic instruction, curriculum mapping and essential questions. Understandings are not included, but it is a good place to start. Rec. by Gail Cappaert
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• Universal Questions for Literature Studies
  Two pages of questions to get students to think analytically about a piece of literature, by Ruth Sunda, a gifted resource teacher in an elementary school.
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• Virginia Studies: Ready Resources for the Classroom (Social Studies)
  Complete Curriculum Framework for Social Studies: Includes standards, essential understandings, essential questions, essential knowledge and essesntial skills
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• Working with Second Language Learners, 1st ed
  Stephen Cary addresses the top ten most frequently asked questions by teachers about ELLs along with practical, research-informed answers.
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