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Reading Tips, Tools, and Techniques for Middle and Secondary Teachers

Developed by Jim Burke
Based on the PD resource, Reading Reminders: Tools, Tips, and Techniques
Recommended Grade Level: Grades 6 - 12

Ensure that all students inherit a lifelong passion for reading.

This School-Based Seminar reveals practical tools, tips, and techniques that develop students' capacity with different types of text in all subject areas. Participants discuss how to establish an environment where students can take risks with their reading. They reflect on professional ideas and goals, then plan how to realize them.

Based on Jim Burke's Reading Reminders, the seminar improves teachers' confidence and effectiveness by ensuring they have the knowledge and strategies to give every student an equal chance at becoming a lifelong reader.

For seminar pricing information, please call 800.541.2086, ext. 1402.

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The Teacher's Daybook, 2013-2014 10 Pack	The Teacher's Daybook, 2013-2014 Edition	The English Teacher's Companion, Fourth Edition	What's the Big Idea? Book Study Bundle
What's the Big Idea?	50 Essential Lessons	Letters to a New Teacher	Accessing School
School Smarts	Writing Reminders	Tools for Thought	Illuminating Texts
Reading Reminders	I'll Grant You That	I Hear America Reading

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Be sure to read our latest issue of Heinemann's Professional Development Catalog-Journal. Our Spring 2013 issue explores how we can embrace the new emphasis on Common Core informational text without diminishing children's curiosity and appetite for knowledge, and the overarching importance of sticking with the foundations of best instructional practices.

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