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You can post this list of essential academic words from Academic for College and Career Readiness, Grades 6-12, along with their definitions, in your classroom or give a copy to every student.

Use this handy Text Complexity Tool from The Common Core Companion: The Standards Decoded, Grades 6-8, to help you rate the text complexity of books, articles, or other texts.

These graphic organizers from The Nonfiction NOW Lesson Bank are tools that students can use throughout a reading and writing unit to help clarify their thinking.

In this lesson from Vocabulary Is Comprehension, students practice a strategy that asks them to look at an entire word and then use their knowledge of word parts to decode the word.

In this lesson from Smuggling Writing students learn to gather information from video and audio through structured note taking and collaborative discussion.

Taken from Grammar Keepers these two-page lesson plans on they're, their, and there will help your students learn once and for all how to avoid misusing these homonyms.

This lesson from Teaching the Social Skills of Academic Interaction, Grades 4-12, shows how to explicitly teach active listening skills, crucial for classroom and life interactions. 

The first part of this lesson from The Common Core Companion Booster Lessons, Grades K-2, explores reading mentor texts for parts of a letter; the second part shows how to use interactive writing to inform about and present knowledge. 

Use this lesson from The Common Core Companion Booster Lessons, Grades 3-5, to explain to students how an author uses reasons and evidence in informational text.

This lesson from 30-Big Idea Lessons for Small Groups helps students practice summarizing, analyzing, illustrations, and meaning, as well as discussing biases.

In this lesson from Text Structures from the Masters, students use the mentor text A Modern Day Devil Baby by Jane Addams to create their own piece on why text goes viral. 

Students learn about digital citizenship and responsibilities related to posting work online in this lesson from Research Writing Rewired.