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              4 Lesson Plans to Teach Deep Reading
            
			            By Jonathan LeMaster on January 12, 2016        
 
Happy New Year! In 2016, we will continue to provide four awesome lessons for grades 4-12 each month. This month, we have developed lessons around Investigative Reading. I love this reading skill!        	
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              4 Lesson Plans for Socratic Seminar
            
			            By Jonathan LeMaster on December 15, 2015        
 
As we head into winter break, we wanted to share some great lessons that you might want to teach this week or use when you return after a long two week rest. If these lessons do not fit in your curriculum, consider other lessons we have developed this school year to teach reading skills.
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              Some Say It Can't Be Done: Literacy in the Math Classroom by Charla DeClark
            
			            By Jonathan LeMaster on December 8, 2015        
 
Charla DeClark is a middle school math teacher at Forest Park Middle School, WI. Charla is a trained LiteracyTA Coach and has been implementing literacy practices in her math classroom since we met her in 2013. Here is an email she shared with me. Please send this to all of your math folks.
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              4 Lesson Plans for Teaching Marking a Text
            
			            By Jonathan LeMaster on October 27, 2015        
 
We hope you enjoyed our October lessons on Visual Summary. This next set of lesson plans add a close reading skill that will help students summarize argument and informational texts.        	
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              Top 10 topics to write about/research in 2015-2016
            
			            By Jonathan LeMaster on October 6, 2015        
 
Every year there are topics that tend to grab the nation's attention. These topics can be political, religious, social, or cultural. The purpose of this eCoach is to connect you to 10 popular topics in 2015-2016 and show you how LiteracyTA can assist you in developing lessons around these topics.        	
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