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Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: Ela Guidebooks: Optic
A mnemonic device that helps students refine their understanding of texts to meet reading expectations, engage in group conversations to meet speaking and listening expectations, and prepare for writing about visual texts.
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Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: Ela Guidebooks: Semantic Mapping
A strategy for developing students' vocabulary by representing the concepts of words graphically. This helps refine their understanding of vocabulary to meet expectations in reading and language.
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Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: Ela Guidebooks: Philosophical Chairs Debate
A discussion technique that engages students in a debate about texts.
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Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: Ela Guidebooks: Notice and Note Signposts
A reading routine which provides students with look fors as they are reading and encourages them to reread a portion of a text to answer a question about the meaning of the text.
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Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: Ela Guidebooks: Mentor Sentences
This strategy helps students read complex, grade-level texts and improve their language skills, including understanding and using grade-level vocabulary and syntax.
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Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: Ela Guidebooks: Shared and Interactive Writing
This strategy helps students refine their understanding of texts to meet the standards for reading and prepare for writing about texts by refining their writing and language skills. In early elementary, the writing that is produced can...
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Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: Ela Guidebooks: Soaps Tone
This strategy helps students refine their understanding of texts to meet reading expectations, engage in group conversations to meet speaking and listening expectations, prepare for writing about texts, and engage in language analysis of...
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Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: Ela Guidebooks: Student Led Discussions (Socratic Seminar, Fishbowl)
This strategy helps students refine their understanding of complex texts to meet reading expectations, engage in a variety of group conversations, and prepare for writing about texts.
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Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: Ela Guidebooks: Tp Castt
This strategy helps students refine their understanding of poetry to meet reading expectations, engage in group conversations to meet speaking and listening expectations, prepare for writing about texts, and engage in language analysis...
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Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: Ela Guidebooks: Annotating Text
This strategy helps students refine their understanding of texts to meet reading expectations and prepare for writing about texts.
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Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: Ela Guidebooks: Organizational Frames for Writing
This strategy helps students prepare and organize thoughts about text, develop a written response in the form of a short or extended response, and use standard English grammar, usage, and conventions in writing.
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Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: Ela Guidebooks: Gallery Walk (Carousel)
This strategy helps students refine their understanding of texts to meet reading expectations and engage in group conversations to meet speaking and listening expectations.
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Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: Ela Guidebooks: Jigsaw
This strategy helps students refine their understanding of texts to meet reading expectations and engage in group conversations to meet speaking and listening expectations.
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Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: Ela Guidebooks: Modeling (Mentor Texts)
This strategy helps learners understand an author's craft, refine their writing about texts, and improve their language skills, including using standard English grammar, usage, conventions, and vocabulary in writing.
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Louisiana Doe: Curriculum Hub: Ela Guidebooks: Romeo and Juliet: Prepare to Write
Students prepare to write by previewing the culminating task for the Romeo and Juliet guidebook unit.
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Louisiana Doe: Curriculum Hub: Ela Guidebooks: Romeo and Juliet: Compare to Film Adaptation
Students view minute 23 to minute 34 from Romeo and Juliet (Luhrmann) to determine what could be added to or changed about this scene by the director.
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Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: Practice Test Guidance
Access Louisiana state practice tests, answer keys, and other testing guidance resources.
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Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: Grade 6 Social Studies: Ancient Egypt
This sample task contains a set of primary and authentic sources about the impact of geography on the development of civilization in Ancient Egypt.
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Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: Grade 6 Social Studies: Silk Road
This sample task contains a set of primary and authentic sources about the impact of geography on the development of civilization in Ancient Egypt.
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Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: Grade 6 Social Studies: Spread of World Religions
This instructional task asks young scholars to explain the impact that religion had on cultural diffusion in the Eastern Hemisphere. It contains a set of authentic source documents. Students engage with the sources to build their...
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Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: Grade 6 Social Studies: West African Kingdoms
Learners develop and express claims through discussions and writing which examine the impact of relationships between ideas, people, and events across time and place. To accomplish this, they recognize recurring themes and patterns in...
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Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: Grade 6 Social Studies: Decline of Feudalism
Students develop and express claims through discussions and writing which describe the changes that led to the decline of feudalism in Medieval Europe. To accomplish this, they recognize recurring themes and patterns in history. Students...
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Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: Grade 7 Social Studies: Abolitionist Movement
This sample task contains a set of primary and authentic sources about the fundamental beliefs that shaped the abolitionist movement.
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Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: Us History: Grade 7: Sectionalism Prior to the Civil War
This sample task contains a set of primary and authentic sources about how the differences between the North and South deepened the feelings of sectionalism leading up to the Civil War.