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Close and Critical Reading

Question-Answer Relationships (QAR)

QAR gives students practice questioning the text and identifying literal and inferential questions. Students learn to find different types of evidence and to rely on their own interpretation when doing close reading.

Grade Level

3-5

CCSS

RL.3-5.1, RI.3-5.1, RF.3-5.4

July 19, 2014

article

Issue 21, Spring 2002

Comprehensive Coverage

Baltimore schools forge innovative partnerships for mental health.

Topic

Ability

article

August 24, 2011

Bringing 9/11 in the Classroom—Useful Lessons

As a matter of practice, we encourage teachers to integrate learning opportunities about religious tolerance and cultural understanding throughout the school year. But this is especially important as the 10th anniversary of 9/11 approaches.

Topic

Bullying & Bias

article

September 7, 2011

Reminding Students of America’s Diverse Beauty

This week as the 10th anniversary of 9/11 approaches, I plan to gather my third-, fourth- and fifth-graders around me. I will tell them, "Our country is a beautiful place." I’ll keep this in mind as I think of the moments when we were clearly afraid.

Topic

Bullying & Bias

article

Issue 45, Fall 2013

Bring it Home

Teaching Tolerance illustration rainbows over school building

Building support for LGBT students in the South.

Topic

Gender & Sexual Identity

article

June 26, 2012

Notes of Apology Offer Platform for Change

This past February, our school abandoned the traditional Valentine’s Day love note exchange, opting instead to encourage school-wide participation in a new activity we called the “Valentine’s Day Apology Note Project.”

Topic

Bullying & Bias Rights & Activism

article

April 1, 2013

Become an “Ecolutionary”

Inspired by a TED Talk, a teacher mobilizes his entire school community to plant an urban garden.

Topic

Rights & Activism

article

March 14, 2014

'Unkink the Hose' with Brain Breaks

March 10-14 is Brain Awareness Week. Help your students maximize their brain power by adding brain breaks to your bag of tricks.

article

January 8, 2015

Perspective Taking

When this teacher assigned her students to debate a topic, they learned more than effective argumentation—they learned how to consider the perspectives of others.

professional development

Religious Diversity in the Classroom

Teaching Tolerance and the Tanenbaum Center for Interreligious Understanding teamed up to offer educators a free webinar series: Religious Diversity in the Classroom.

Professional Development Topic

Instruction

Topic

Religion

September 10, 2014